How to Use hammerhead in a Sentence

hammerhead

noun
  • We are not meant to be hammerheads in a world of nails.
    — Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There are at least eight hammerhead species, enough to fill a tool belt.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
  • But in what should be the busiest time of the year, not one hammerhead could be found.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013
  • In the video, a hammerhead shark is caught by a man with a fishing rod.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Each time something struck, his heart leapt, but not once did his team pull up a hammerhead.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013
  • The best painting here looks like a kind of hammerhead on a torso.
    — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The shark was a hammerhead believed to be about 13 feet long.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 26 June 2019
  • Keep an eye out for sea turtles, hammerhead sharks, and manta rays.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Keep an eye out for sea turtles, hammerhead sharks, and manta rays.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But to each its own, upon birth, each hammerhead must fend for themselves.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Then the divers saw other sharks—a tiger, a great hammerhead, and an oceanic white tip.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2014
  • That list also includes hammerheads, lemon sharks and white sharks.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • That footage also includes shots of divers feeding fish to some of the hammerheads by hand.
    — Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
  • The trip is spent searching out tiger, hammerhead, reef and nurse sharks, so the fish can be tagged and released.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Invasive hammerheads have been known to wreak havoc in their new homes.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
  • Still, hammerheads manage to dive thousands of feet into the ocean’s cold depths in search of prey.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • Later that day a 12-foot hammerhead swam slowly past my kayak.
    — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • If a hammerhead shark is spotted close to shore, researchers won’t issue a shark alert like with great white sharks.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 30 July 2024
  • So far the line has produced a couple of dead eels and an endangered hammerhead shark.
    — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The sharks in the area, hammerheads and tigers, are relatively small.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • At present, no deck planks remain on the wider, westernmost portion of the pier called the hammerhead.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Or of being surrounded by schools of hammerheads and being buzzed by an orca?
    — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
  • There may be different types of sharks showing up, such as tiger, bull sharks and smooth hammerheads, Lowe said.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • The hammerhead species, which can grow to about a foot long, can pose a risk to humans, Morgan-Olvera said.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
  • The outside of the building has been repainted and now sports the famous hammerhead shark hanging on the side.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2020
  • During the show, she can be heard noting that a hammerhead shark appears to be pursuing a bale of fake cocaine.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In the episode, Phelps will race against a reef shark, a hammerhead, and in the final competition, a great white.
    — Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2017
  • Species include the Caribbean reef shark, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks.
    — Chloe Mayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • These include Caribbean reef sharks, oceanic white tips, great hammerheads, tiger sharks and bull sharks.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That hammerhead is far from the only shark species that keeps the Colombian biologist busy.
    — Angela Posada-Swafford, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2024

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