How to Use blue shark in a Sentence

blue shark

noun
  • Lemon sharks, bull sharks, mako sharks and blue sharks are among those that give birth to live young.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick.
    — Brian Skerry, National Geographic, 31 July 2020
  • Cape fur seals enjoy dining on the energy-rich livers of blue sharks.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
  • About 5 miles or more offshore, blue sharks are very common this time of year, said Skomal.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • There have been reports of great white sharks, blue sharks and thresher sharks in the Sound, which are aggressive.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
  • The researchers only captured a brief glimpse of a blue shark on their submarine cameras.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Brayden posed in between Heather and Tarek, wearing a blue shark costume.
    — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
  • For example, the blue shark will dive more than a thousand feet during the day but return to the surface to spend the night.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The police in Valencia, Spain, saw a blue shark dying in the surf along a tiny stretch of beach.
    — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Cape Verde’s crest, featuring a blue shark called Tubarão Azul also stands out on the kits.
    — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Whatever the reason, this sort of duel isn’t exclusive to just swordfish and blue sharks.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Thomas Nebel, 5, a kindergartner from Glenview, had his face painted with a blue shark.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The predator-prey relationship between blue sharks and swordfish is a complex one.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Reports suggest that the woman may have been on a blue shark spotting snorkeling trip when the incident took place.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Brayden posted in between Heather and Tarek, wearing a blue shark costume.
    — Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Leopard, mako and blue sharks have attacked humans in California as well.
    — Allen Kim, CNN, 23 Dec. 2019
  • While blue sharks are known to prey on swordfish in some regions, the reverse interaction is less understood.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • That includes eight bigger animals like the massive basking shark, the common blue shark and the infamous great white shark.
    — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The robes were sold in sizes 2T through 10 years in blue, plaid, red rose, and in blue shark, green dinosaur, and white dinosaur patterns.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The most sensitive sharks to the device were in the order Carcharhiniformes, which includes oceanic white-tip sharks and blue sharks.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Luckily, mako and blue sharks congregate in spring off Cape Cod, making catching and tagging the sharks more doable.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • Using mako and blue sharks, among the most nomadic of sharks, scientists were able to fill in data gaps and improve some forecasts by as much as 40%.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, blue sharks will soon be managed under a formal system that includes catch limits and quotas, a first for the species in the Indian Ocean.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Martin Yelland, 38, was diving just off the coast of Penzance when the blue shark — a species that can grow to be 13 feet long — swam straight towards him.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • In the case of this large thresher in Libya, the female shark was lanced straight through the heart, and a blue shark found in 2016 off the coast of Spain had been stabbed in the brain.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The same type of blue shark was also responsible for a similar panic on the other side of the island last year, The Telepgraph reported.
    — Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The blue shark is highly migratory and tends to move toward the north Atlantic during the summer months and toward the south Atlantic during the winter.
    — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, 26 July 2018
  • Because blue sharks migrate thousands of miles across entire ocean basins, these new findings add another layer of complexity to the already challenging task of tracking marine pollution.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Oregon's Department of Fish & Wildlife lists the salmon shark, spiny dogfish, soupfin shark, common thresher shark, basking shark, blue shark as native to its coastal waters, among others.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2021
  • For instance, Captain John Boats out of Plymouth during a whale watch last August came across a dead basking shark that was being scavenged by five to six blue sharks.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025

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