How to Use bony fish in a Sentence

bony fish

noun
  • To get your allotted amount, incorporate calcium-rich foods like fatty and bony fish, leafy green vegetables, tofu and milk into your diet.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Studies have revealed the velella eat zooplankton, fish eggs and krill, while ocean sunfish called mola mola, one of the ocean's largest bony fish, have been seen feasting on large flotillas of velella at sea.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • Also found at the site were some bony fish scales and teeth and incomplete plesiosaurian teeth, indicating a humid climate and complex ecosystem, according to the paper.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • After years of work, paleontologists have identified these fossils as remains of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish, and sharks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Stingrays are a staple in a Florida hammerhead's diet, along with grouper, sea catfish, a variety of bony fishes, sharks, crabs, and squid, per the FWC.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Reportedly, the site reveals a densely populated environment where this predator lived alongside freshwater sharks, bony fish, turtles, and crocodiles, as well as massive herbivores like sauropods and iguanodontians.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Reproduction in these animals has long been considered a slow, energetically demanding process, especially compared with most bony fishes, yet until this study, no one had directly measured how much energy a shark actually uses while producing eggs.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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