How to Use great white shark in a Sentence

great white shark

noun
  • That's about two to three times the size of today's great white shark.
    — Maddie Burakoff, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Besides, who wouldn’t want to watch a great white shark’s home movies?
    — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
  • Charles meets his fate after the crash via the jaws of a great white shark.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Adult great white sharks are gray on top and white underneath.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Killer whales are stronger, bigger, smarter, and can swim faster than great white sharks.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • Ocean images may be first of newborn great white shark in the wild.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The group spotted a great white shark swimming close to their boat.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • No great white shark birth, in fact, has ever been witnessed.
    — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • Just feet away from the camera is a great white shark about to breach the surface.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Australia is home to large seal colonies—and many great white sharks that pursue them.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Excuse the mixed metaphor, but the Viper feels like a great white shark on the road.
    — WSJ, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The agency added that it was reported to be a great white shark.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
  • Suddenly, a great white shark leapt out of the water.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • There's a great white shark making his rounds along the Atlantic seaboard.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • Trying to land and unhook a great white shark while seated in a kayak on an open bay?
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Their 12-foot great white shark catch came just 10 months later.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Jacky added that Jade wasn’t afraid of the great white sharks and would often see them in the sea.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The sort of tumor found in a great white shark turns out to have been reported in sharks for decades.
    — Andrew Karam, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2016
  • Things go south quickly, however, when the group comes face-to-face with great white sharks.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 18 Apr. 2023
  • New drone footage appears to show the first time a newborn great white shark has been spotted in the wild.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The Times reported that is was believed to be a large great white shark.
    — Fox News, 8 Sep. 2020
  • This great white shark circled Chip Michalove's boat for about 45 mins.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Compared to the megalodon, the model of the modern-day great white shark seems puny.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 July 2019
  • Some, like the osprey and the great white shark, travel solo; others move in packs.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Jim Cocci of Viera named a great white shark after his wife, Colleen.
    — Grace Pateras, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The orcas then repeated the process with another young great white shark.
    — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Harper is a bit of a dead-eyed, ruthless, sociopathic great white shark.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Warmer waters may shift great white sharks What does El Niño have to do with great white sharks?
    — Kristin Scharkey, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • In the span of one week at the end of June, researchers spotted 12 great white sharks near the bay.
    — Scottie Andrew and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 21 July 2019
  • Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the Gulf Coast.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 27 Mar. 2022

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