How to Use ridley in a Sentence
ridley
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The law’s list of Gulf species harmed by offshore drilling includes Bryde’s and sperm whales, Kemp’s ridley and loggerhead sea turtles, and elkhorn corals, according to the complaint.
—Christopher Yasiejko, Bloomberg.com, 21 Oct. 2020
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Recent studies show female Kemp’s ridleys may come back to nest at three-plus-year intervals.
—USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019
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In 2015, people rescued an olive ridley sea turtle off Costa Rica with a plastic straw stuck up its nose.
—David Doubilet, National Geographic, 14 May 2016
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An angler in Georgia recently reeled in a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle off a pier in Tybee Island.
—Madeline Farber, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2018
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Mast pointed to Kemp’s ridley sea turtles as a good example of what’s happening, especially in the United States.
—Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
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Leatherbacks and Atlantic hawksbills roam offshore waters, while loggerhead, green, and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles frequent near-shore habitats.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
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Volunteers from the Sea Turtle Patrol spotted two small parallel footprints with a line in the sand between the footprints, all heading inland from the water meant a mother Kemp’s ridley had nested nearby.
—Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018
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This problem primarily affects Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, the smallest and most endangered of all sea turtles.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
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Kemp’s ridley turtles once veered dangerously close to extinction, their numbers decimated by egg harvesting and commercial fishing nets, which entangled the turtles and caused them to drown.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
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