How to Use finned in a Sentence

finned

adjective
  • Indulge in a bit of kitsch with their oyster plate, where each indent takes the shape of a finned friend.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 9 June 2026
  • Both species are part of what scientists now believe were enormous, finned octopuses that used paddle-like appendages on their heads to move through ancient oceans.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • As for the finned 202 MM, one of those might command $1 million or more in concours condition.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The fossils belonged to a group of extinct finned octopuses known as Cirrata that researchers believed crushed their prey with powerful jaws.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This new species of finned octopus suggests a more complex picture — one where giant, intelligent invertebrates also held power at the top of the food chain.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Lowe, who has been studying the behavior of juvenile great white sharks along the Southern California coast for 20 years, was not surprised by the appearance of a finned friend.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Pardo and Mann’s re-examination revealed that these were young megalichthyids, early finned tetrapodomorphs that predated emobolomeres by 20 to 30 million years.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
  • Gorgo, who resembles Godzilla with larger claws and finned ears that are, frankly, kind of cute, is captured and sold to a London circus … only for his much, much larger mother to smash through Big Ben and rescue her baby.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Our suburban town of Kingston, across the Susquehanna River, had an optimistic, futuristic veneer with its new ranch and split-level houses and postwar adult toys like finned cars and color TVs.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • The team evaluated the size of the ancient octopuses using allometric calculation—a method that used the proportional growth rates of modern, long-bodied finned octopuses to extrapolate the size of their extinct relatives.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The researchers determined that the fossils, which came from Japan and Vancouver Island, off Canada’s Pacific Coast, represent two species in a group known as the finned octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and Nanaimoteuthis haggarti.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026

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