How to Use piranha in a Sentence

piranha

noun

• This is more than enough to resist the bite of a piranha.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Charlie hires and fires a nice lawyer and buys back the piranha.
  — Hunter Harris, Vulture, 27 May 2022
• Even the piranha they fish for can kill them with their razor-sharp teeth.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2018
• So there are going to be a fish balloon, a crab, a piranha and a shark that will be out there.
  — Annie Alleman, Naperville Sun, 21 June 2017
• The tooth shape, like that of a modern piranha, is adapted to cut fins and rip flesh out of larger prey.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
• Check out the tropical birds and piranha in the waiting area.
  — Anne Harnagel, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• Blind cavefish and red-bellied piranha are found in the Fresh Water Zone.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2022
• Tourists who make it to the remote region flock to the lake in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the rare pink dolphin or trying their hand at piranha fishing.
  — Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• The piranha kept bumping, with audible thuds, into the glass walls of its prison.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 24 July 2021
• This monstrous fish is a tambaqui, a close relative of the piranha.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2011
• Currently, more than 20 piranha species can be found in the Amazon river, with up to 60 species in the lakes and rivers of South America.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
• Get close to sharks and piranhas; dare him to touch a stingray, ball python, bearded dragon, or even an alligator.
  — The Hartford Courant, courant.com, 8 June 2017
• But the top few players in a game tend to play on at length, until all but one falls perhaps by dropping into lava or a piranha plant.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 1 Oct. 2020
• The fish, which closely resembles a piranha and is native to South America, has teeth that look like those of a human.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
• Despite the hazards, the Pororoca is popular with surfers, who don’t mind sharing a wave with a caiman or a piranha.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• There are huge snapping piranha plants that look like venus fly traps, stylized green trees and a cafe inside an over-sized toadstool complete with a red cap and white dots.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The Life Of Pi (2012) Most films take the terror of being stranded at sea, and create bloody, suspenseful thrillers involving sharks and piranhas.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 15 June 2019
• Go on a night excursion by foot or canoe, fish for piranha, and stay in one of eleven tree houses, built into Ironwood trees dozens of feet off the forest floor.
  — Austin Merrill, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
• Twelve pounds of border collie and short-haired terrier with a soft belly and tiny little piranha teeth.
  — Marc Lester, adn.com, 16 May 2015
• The reason is that pirarucu share their habitat with piranha.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• The casting is top notch, too, especially Quaid as Jaeger, whose voice perfectly captures the kind of guy who would shave his face using a piranha.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• In reality, humans don't have to worry too much about death by piranha bite.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
• Rice is believed to be the first to develop fly fishing in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, including for many fierce species with piranha-like teeth that Rice taught locals how to catch.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
• The folklore about the scary, razor-toothed piranha doesn’t accurately describe a pacu.
  — Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
• In this animated film, a wolf, python, shark, piranha and tarantula set out to rehab their images and walk the straight and narrow instead.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 10 May 2022
• The actors and extras in Texas basically frolicked, and then thrashed around, in piranha-free water.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
• But piranhas aren't the only fish that experience this.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
• Amid the fight to win, riders will see favorite characters like Princess Peach and Toad as well as be surrounded by iconic piranha plants, according to a sneak peek video released of the ride.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2022
• Like quicksand pits or cobras poised to strike, piranha attacks are one of those exotic dangers that are much more familiar from the movies than real life.
  — Jim Kiest, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2021
• Other available badges let Mario jump higher, grab distant walls with a piranha plant grappling hook, or climb up walls with a useful vertical jump.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024