How to Use sawfish in a Sentence

sawfish

noun

• Soon, there was a bite on the line and Atherton watched a sawfish come out of the water.
  — Ed Killer, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Pence joined Sudal and watched him catch a 13-foot smalltooth sawfish.
  — Fox News, 10 May 2018
• Ceebu jen, a hearty fish stew, is the national dish, and sawfish — once plentiful but now rare — grace bank notes.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2017
• The sawfish is very closely related to stingrays, not so much sharks, but is sometimes caught using the same methods.
  — Ed Killer, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Two dead leopard sharks, a dead hammerhead shark, and the snout of a smalltooth sawfish -- an endangered species -- were also found in the search.
  — Maria Morava and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
• Elasmobranch fish, which includes sharks, rays, sawfish and skates have five to seven gill openings on each side.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• It’s hard to find a largetooth sawfish in some tropical waters in the Pacific and Atlantic.
  — Paul Sutherland, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2016
• It's even been seen in sharks and rays that are in the care of humans, including sawfish, blacktip sharks, leopard sharks and several other types.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 11 July 2023
• Smalltooth sawfish are related to sharks and were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2003.
  — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2018
• The sea animals have similar chainsaw-like mouths to another ocean fish, known as the sawfish, though they aren’t at all related.
  — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2020
• Researchers found a population of small tooth sawfish in Florida that’s just barely hanging on, Feldheim said.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Unlike previous studies of extinct and current sawfish, this one probed the internal structure of the scales’ hard outer layer, called enameloid.
  — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
• Populations of smalltooth sawfish plummeted in the second half of the 20th century due to two primary factors: habitat loss and bycatch.
  — Courtney Linder, Gloria Dawson, Dan Shapley, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023
• However, sharks and other elasmobranchs—a group of cartilaginous fish including rays, skates and sawfish—are very sensitive to electric fields.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
• The Germans called their radioteleprinter equipment Sägefisch, or sawfish, reportedly because of the radio signals' sawtooth wave.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2019
• Biologists with multiple agencies and universities are investigating if the deaths of the sawfish are related to the broader fish kill.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• The search also uncovered two dead leopard sharks, one dead hammerhead shark and the snout of a smalltooth sawfish, an endangered species, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2021
• The numbers of sawfish in the ocean have declined dramatically over the years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 4 Nov. 2019
• Neither sawfish showed signs of injuries or other apparent death indications.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• Coupled with other recent developments, this find has raised scientists’ hopes for sawfish recovery.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Highlights include the oldest aquatic animal on exhibit in the world (Granddad the lungfish), an abundance of marine mammals, a wobbegong and a sawfish, and—my personal favorites—several species of lionfishes.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2014
• Similarly, a study published earlier this year found that more than half of the freshwater sawfish sampled in Western Australia sported scars inflicted by freshwater crocodiles.
  — National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
• In 2015, a group of marine biologists from several American institutions documented parthenogenesis in wild sawfish, a type of ray also known as a carpenter shark.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024