How to Use stingray in a Sentence

stingray

noun
  • In Stingray Bay, guests can touch sharks and stingrays.
    Colleen Creamer, New York Times, 24 May 2018
  • Now, a new study has added new items to their menu: sharks and stingrays.
    National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Don’t let your child take a dip in the stingray display.
    Travis Deshong, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
  • Cownose stingrays may get two to three feet when grown.
    The Kansas City Zoo, kansascity, 27 June 2018
  • There's the stingray texture and hits of gold all over Drake's pairs.
    Pete Forester, Esquire, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Southern stingrays can grow up to 5 ft and weigh up to 200 lbs.
    Cassie Armstrong, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2018
  • Steve was killed by a stingray in 2006 while filming for TV.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024
  • This is the scene in front of LGHQ as there's been a rise in stingray incidents.
    David Williams, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The stingray tank was one of the most popular exhibits among the open-day crowd.
    Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 7 May 2017
  • The stingray joins the list of 350 fish known to inhabit the Tocantins River in Brazil.
    Sean Greene, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
  • The female stingrays will grow to be about five feet wide and the males a little smaller.
    Matt Campbell, kansascity, 1 May 2018
  • At first, staff worried that the stingray might have cancer.
    Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Scuba dive here and expect dozens of species of fish, sharks, stingrays, coral, and more.
    Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2019
  • Round rays are stingrays with small round bodies and short, stout tails with spines on them.
    Kristi Belcamino, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Not to mention 5-foot long sharks and huge stingrays that are known to hunt in those waters.
    Carly Breit, Country Living, 23 June 2017
  • The stingrays swim in close formation like a squadron of aircraft.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2018
  • Irwin died in 2006 after he was struck in the heart by the barb of a stingray off the coast of northern Australia.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Steve Irwin, who died in 2006 after a stingray stung him.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Four baby stingrays tumbled out of the new mother and onto the pier.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 29 May 2018
  • This soft robotic stingray is made of rat heart muscle.
    William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016
  • Your mother is in a vat that is filling up with stingrays, and Donald Trump is not.
    Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • The new stingray touch tank recently opened, and visitors can feel the supple skin of the six stingrays in the tank and watch the staff feed them.
    Jennifer Shapiro-Sacks, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The rays died not long afterward — 34 of the aquarium’s 42 cownose stingrays.
    Alejandro Serrano, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The researchers found enough lapses in this setup to sneak a pair of 5G stingray attacks through.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Kids can enjoy feeding the stingrays; food is available for $2 per two pieces.
    Deborah Fleck, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The most exotic and most expensive boot is the stingray boot which has a diamond shape on the front of the shoe.
    Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Getting to these fish can be tricky with rocks, sharp corals, and the occasional stingray.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The aquarium's vet, Dr. Rob Jones, later confirmed that the stingray was growing three to four eggs.
    Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • This would have been the first case of parthenogenesis documented in a stingray.
    Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 12 June 2024
  • Lucky paddlers might spot a silver mullet — a fish, not a cool grandpa — or even notice a stingray glide beneath their boat.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024

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