How to Use piranha in a Sentence
piranha
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This is more than enough to resist the bite of a piranha.
—The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
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Charlie hires and fires a nice lawyer and buys back the piranha.
—Hunter Harris, Vulture, 27 May 2022
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Even the piranha they fish for can kill them with their razor-sharp teeth.
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2018
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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
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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
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Check out the tropical birds and piranha in the waiting area.
—Anne Harnagel, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
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Blind cavefish and red-bellied piranha are found in the Fresh Water Zone.
—Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2022
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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
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The piranha kept bumping, with audible thuds, into the glass walls of its prison.
—John Horgan, Scientific American, 24 July 2021
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This monstrous fish is a tambaqui, a close relative of the piranha.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The reason is that pirarucu share their habitat with piranha.
—The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
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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
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In reality, humans don't have to worry too much about death by piranha bite.
—Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
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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
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The folklore about the scary, razor-toothed piranha doesn’t accurately describe a pacu.
—Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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But piranhas aren't the only fish that experience this.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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