How to Use box jellyfish in a Sentence

box jellyfish

noun
  • But like box jellyfish, which are nasty, nasty and are painful stings are starting to show up.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • Some jellyfish, like the deadly box jellyfish, use toxins that punch holes in skin, blood, and nerve cells alike.
    — National Geographic, 28 June 2018
  • One of the deadliest venoms in the world can be found in the flimsy tentacles of this box jellyfish.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
  • The box jellyfish grazed my thigh first, before wrapping itself around Sean’s legs below me.
    — Shannon Leone Fowler, The Cut, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The beach is home to venomous spiders, snakes, white pointer sharks, crocodiles, and lethal box jellyfish.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
  • If a human is stung by a box jellyfish, the venom will cause paralysis, cardiac arrest, and death.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Scientist gets stung by box jellyfish, recovers after days in pain, then finds a treatment.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2012
  • The excruciatingly painful sting of a box jellyfish, which can kill a person in under a minute.
    — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The humble box jellyfish, which has wandered the ocean for at least 500 million years, can kill a human in five minutes flat.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • In the warm waters of the Caribbean, box jellyfish carefully dodge the roots of mangroves while hunting for small crustaceans to eat.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Irukandji jellyfish is reportedly a type of box jellyfish.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Not only that, but box jellyfish also distinguish themselves from other species by using sight to keep from bumping into obstacles on the ocean floor.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The sting of the Australian box jellyfish has been described as being lashed with a whip dipped in burning acid, and is powerful enough to kill an adult in as little as two minutes!
    — New Atlas, 30 June 2026
  • The area is heavily populated with crocodiles, sharks, and deadly box jellyfish.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The area is heavily populated with crocodiles, sharks, and deadly box jellyfish.
    — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In a new study, researchers showed that the Caribbean box jellyfish can actually learn from experience, no brain required.
    — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Stings by certain species of box jellyfish, including Irukandji species, have caused deaths in the Indo-Pacific.
    — Michele Chabin, Washington Post, 5 July 2019
  • The animal has a mix of features seen among modern jellies, its body roughly resembling today’s infamous box jellyfish while the tentacles look like those of moon jellies.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • In unregulated economies, children are sometimes deputized to harvest box jellyfish for diners.
    — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Jack Barnes, a Queensland physician, eventually narrowed down the suspects to a species of tiny, nearly transparent box jellyfish.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Even though we’re separated by millions of years of evolution, box jellyfish and back-boned animals have evolved eyes by independently recruiting the same building blocks.
    — Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2011
  • In two separate studies published in the journal Toxins, researchers looked at treatments for both the box jellyfish (some species of which can be fatal in severe cases) and the Portuguese man-of-war.
    — Ilima Loomis, Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • Scientists weren’t surprised the Caribbean box jellyfish—a smaller, non-lethal counterpart to the deadly Australian box jellyfish—could learn.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Fortunately, avoiding box jellyfish is pretty straightforward.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2023
  • These experiments provide evidence that box jellyfish are capable of associative learning, or the process of linking two unrelated stimuli together.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The jellyfish’s sting won’t hurt at first, but 4 to 48 hours later, the venom from these tiny jellies—a species of box jellyfish—can cause a syndrome characterized by feelings of impending doom and life-threatening spikes in blood pressure.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • Poisonous Caribbean box jellyfish can learn at a far more complex level than ever imagined, despite only having 1,000 nerve cells and no centralized brain, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Death can occur within a few minutes of having significant contact with a box jellyfish if antivenom isn't administered, Sky News Australia stated, citing Australian Geographic.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The Australian box jellyfish is considered the most venous marine animal in the world, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    — Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025

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