How to Use brine shrimp in a Sentence

brine shrimp

noun
  • Want to venture a guess how many brine shrimp grebes eat in one day?
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • So, like the lakes themselves, the brine shrimp too are zombies of a sort.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • The time-traveling males in this case are brine shrimp (a k a sea monkeys).
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2011
  • Some were wearing brine shrimp costumes, bird costumes, bird masks.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That could mean less plankton, less plankton could mean less brine shrimp, and that means less food for the grebes.
    — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • The brine shrimp that is harvested from the lake and sold as food would disappear.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 June 2021
  • The barnacles were fed fresh brine shrimp for three weeks to monitor their growth.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
  • And many of those fish survive on fresh brine shrimp flown in from Florida each week.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Sep. 2017
  • These help trap a species of brine shrimp called Artemia salina that gives the birds their famous pink hue.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Every single polyp that was given the choice ate almost twice as many microbeads as brine shrimp eggs.
    — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • Brine flies and brine shrimp are saline lakes’ most unique and charismatic endemic critters.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • If the population of algae crashes, so would the brine shrimp.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • Around the world, birds flock to salt lakes, drawn by the flies and brine shrimp that live in them, and by the relative absence of predators.
    — Rosa Lyster, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of netting brine shrimp and viewing shorebirds, Butler was home sick in bed.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Her research traced the microbes that live in the brine to the diets of the region’s three species of flamingos, which eat brine shrimp.
    — Ian Morse, Quartz, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Among the many migratory birds that depend on brine shrimp are Wilson's phalaropes.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • But when rains come, the eggs unfurl into small, feathery crustaceans called fairy shrimp, the freshwater cousins of brine shrimp.
    — Sabrina Imbler New York Times, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The bird is looking for food, mainly brine shrimp, and this afternoon the lake is unusually dry.
    — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This packet contains salt, water conditioner and some brine shrimp eggs.
    — Cassie Armstrong, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 May 2018
  • In fact, there is so much brine shrimp cyst present that Luft is considering extending the harvest.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Higher levels of salt threaten the life cycles of the brine shrimp, brine flies, algae and microbes that live in the water.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The mushroom-like structures are formed by furry, deep green mats of microbes, which are the base of the lake’s food chain and main sustenance for brine shrimp.
    — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Shorebird and brine shrimp populations have been declining in the region.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Admission is $19 per person; brine shrimp, lorikeet nectar and meals cost extra.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2020
  • They were fed with the brine shrimp Artemia salina, which is among their usual prey, and exposed to the antioxidant glutathione.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 June 2024
  • The waters in California’s dry lakes have delivered a living bumper crop — brine shrimp.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • No fish swim here, but brine shrimp do, and those draw myriad bird species that migrate along the Pacific Flyway.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • No fish swim here, but brine shrimp do, and those draw myriad bird species that migrate along the Pacific Flyway.
    — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
  • To get the brine shrimp to migrate, the researchers simply took advantage of the fact that these organisms migrate toward the light.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
  • After a half-dozen of these up/down cycles, the researchers left the brine shrimp on the bottom of the tank and read the salinity at a variety of depths.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018

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