How to Use shipworm in a Sentence

shipworm

noun

• The tissue connecting the two halves of wood is a shipworm.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• The shipworms could also pick it apart faster than researchers can.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• Most shipworms are sort of beige, or whitish, maybe slightly pinkish.
  — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Haygood recalls, until a shipworm the size of a baseball bat lay on the table.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2017
• The new shipworm—a thick, white, wormlike creature that can grow to be more than a meter long—lives in freshwater.
  — Alex Fox, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2019
• Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock.
  — Alex Fox, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2019
• The giant shipworm bores through wooden boats, wrecking them and serving as a regular pest.
  — Sammy Nickalls, Esquire, 17 Apr. 2017
• Despite their name, shipworms aren’t really worms at all.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 June 2019
• The two most common borers are a kind of shipworm called Teredo navalis, which is actually a wormlike clam, and tiny crustaceans known as gribbles.
  — New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• The giant is quite different from another, smaller species of shipworm, a type of clam that burrows into wood, including the wood of ships.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2017
• Deep-sea wood borers (Xylophaga, a genus of bivalve mollusks) take over where shallow water gribbles and shipworms left off.
  — Brian Payton, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• Behold, the giant shipworm, your newest living nightmare.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
• Unlike other shipworms, Kuphus burrows into mud rather than wood.
  — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Previous strains of shipworm bacteria have led to antibiotics that treat parasitic infections in the past, according to NOAA.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020
• Shipway determined a species of naval shipworm called Teredo navalis was likely responsible for eating away the interior of the historic vessel.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
• Shipway spent the day Wednesday looking at shipworm samples under a microscope at Harvard University.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• When the wood was taken back to the lab, scientists discovered more than 300 organisms and animals living inside the wood, including shipworms, which is a type of clam that has the ability to transform wood into animal tissue, according to CNN.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2020
• Rafting crinoids flourished until roughly 180 million years ago, when, some scientists think, the appearance of wood-boring organisms like shipworms drastically curtailed their drifting ways.
  — Raleigh McElvery, Smithsonian, 12 Aug. 2019
• Previous work by the research team on bacteria in shipworms has resulted in at least one antibiotic being investigated as a drug to treat parasitic infections.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024