How to Use tadpole in a Sentence

tadpole

noun

• For the next two months, the tadpoles stayed in the pens, nibbling on the algae.
  — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• The toads and tadpoles are also easy prey due to their small stature.
  — Zekriah Chaudhry, Twin Cities, 5 July 2019
• The species can take up to four to five years to mature from the nascent tadpole stage to the adult frog stage, Lundy added.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• The children fished for tadpoles in the stone pond while the rest of us snacked on fava beans and made small talk.
  — Jamie Quatro, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023
• The team hiked to the sites several times a week, trying to catch glimpses of the elusive tadpoles.
  — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• The frogs would have to hitchhike across a state border to reach the area, and there’s some doubt tadpoles could even survive there.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 July 2018
• There are eggs in a nest, frogs, a tadpole, deer and lambs and a whole woodchuck family.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
• A year ago, about 500 tadpoles were released into a stream elsewhere in the range.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• This fish, which looks more like a tadpole, lives at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and is the deepest confirmed fish in the sea.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
• By the time the hatchlings reach the tadpole stage and are too large to eat, their fellow tadpoles lose interest.
  — John Timmer, Wired, 29 Aug. 2021
• The student begins his studies with the life cycle, as expressed in the tadpole.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Since then, the clip has been watched more than 2.2 million times, and spawned imitators like so many schools of tadpoles.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The mom, passing the tadpole classroom 13 years on, recalls this notebook.
  — Leah Eskin, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• A researcher named one of the tadpole’s heads Arne, and the other head Sebastian, after two of his colleagues.
  — Jon Mooallem, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2014
• Even the tadpoles of Cuban tree frogs compete with the tadpoles of native frogs, making the species an even stronger invasive threat.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Hundreds of tadpoles have been put into mountain streams to boost the population in the wild.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• The snot houses often are nearly transparent and flow all around the critter that looks like a tadpole, but isn’t.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2020
• Absorbed in a fragile trance, Allen studies a knot of tadpoles wiggling in a marshy puddle.
  — Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• But then, millions of western toad tadpoles began their migration from the lake’s depths to the lily pads and shallows above, to feed on the algae.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• Thousands more tadpoles and adult frogs are being bred at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens for release in the park.
  — Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2017
• This larval stage looks similar to a frog's, with the salamander looking very tadpole-like with a large head with a tail.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2019
• Moving down the food chain, removal of frog tadpoles has been shown to lead to more algae growth in streams, depriving them of oxygen.
  — National Geographic, 13 Feb. 2020
• In the desert, where tadpole ponds dry up fast, female toads sometimes have to make drastic decisions.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
• People have taken all means to try to break these crazy glass tadpoles—from shooting the drops to squashing them in hydraulic presses.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• John Gurdon removes the nucleus from the egg cell of a frog and replaces it with a nucleus of a mature cell from a tadpole.
  — Adam Piore, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2016
• To become a frog, a tadpole has to rearrange its face; the genome was thought to hard-wire a set of cell movements for every facial feature.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
• What results is like a tadpole with an extra long ropey tail, and the drop part is almost unparalleled in strength.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2020
• The wobbly-legged chicks are now learning to eat tadpoles, grasshoppers and dragonflies, and growing at a brisk pace of 10 to 15 percent each day.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 9 May 2018
• As water floods into the whale’s mouth, its throat pouch expands, leaving the whale looking like a bloated tadpole.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
• The result looks a bit like a tadpole, with a long, thin tail of spaghettified material and a denser oval structure similar to the head at one end, encompassing the black hole.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024