How to Use sea cucumber in a Sentence

sea cucumber

noun

• The squishy blob is a sea cucumber — and a new species.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
• There are over 1,250 species of sea cucumber in the world.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2020
• Fall means the start of dive fisheries for pricey sea cucumbers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Not oil, but the sea cucumber, a large slug-like creature that infests the ocean floor.
  — The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
• In the Challenger Deep, he was met by a swimming sea cucumber.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• The waters are usually clear enough to spot starfish and sea cucumbers on the seafloor among the darting fish.
  — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2020
• The footage was full of life: in Java, thousands of tiny translucent sea cucumbers grazed in the sand like cattle.
  — The Economist, 6 Sep. 2019
• This version comes with a lot of seafood — abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber, prawns — along with roasted duck, black moss and more.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
• Red sea cucumbers last year paid out at over $4 a pound to fishermen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
• The husky sea cucumbers were tempting, but the young survivalists had no idea how to turn them into food.
  — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• The book also shows the evolution of sea cucumbers from the Jurassic era roughly 180 million years ago up to the present day.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• In addition to limpets and sea cucumbers, the girls tracked down gumboots, rock scallops, urchins, red rock crab, and tiny shrimp.
  — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• In the 1800s, traders sailed to the ends of the earth for exotic items, like tropical sea cucumbers, that might appeal to the Chinese consumer.
  — Yoni Wilkenfeld, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2019
• By expelling its viscera, the sea cucumber can buy itself time to crawl away from threats and seek safety.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• Nearly 1,700 species of sea cucumbers live in the world's oceans, mostly harvested by divers.
  — Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
• Before, some of those divers made a living by scouring the ocean floor for sea cucumber and lobster to sell to Chinese exporters.
  — Jamie Lafferty, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2021
• Inside lie rows of drying seafood or plants—scallops, sea cucumbers, orange peel, all turning brown and gnarled in the sun.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• Eels, sea cucumbers, queen conchs, marine turtles, some corals, sturgeons, and sea horses were also added to the list.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2019
• Amphipods Along with sea cucumbers, tiny flea-like crustaceans known as amphipods are the most abundant animal in the hadal zone.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• It’s thought that animals without brains, such as starfish, jellyfish, and sea cucumbers, do not feel pain in the same way humans do.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
• In Chinese cooking, fish maw -- the swim bladder of a fish -- is a delicacy alongside abalone and sea cucumber.
  — Rachel Phua, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• The sea cucumber fishery closed on March 31 with an allowable harvest of 1.7 million pounds.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
• Some researchers suspect the Bajau only began diving to great depths when a market for sea cucumbers opened up in China in the 1600s.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• During one of these deep-sea dives, the researchers found an unfamiliar-looking reddish sea cucumber, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• Till 2001, there were no legal hurdles in catching sea cucumbers.
  — K A Shaji, Quartz India, 5 May 2020
• Whoever named the sea cucumber after a vegetable didn't give it enough credit.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2017
• In Southeast Alaska, divers are still going down for giant geoduck clams and sea cucumbers.
  — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2017
• From slimy sea cucumbers to fan-like sea lilies, the mysterious creatures live in complete darkness.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
• The weapon was discovered by a commercial diver looking for sea cucumbers off the north coast of British Columbia.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2016
• Southeast’s sea cucumber fishery opens to divers on October 4 with a catch of nearly 1.9 million pounds.
  — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Aug 2024