How to Use invertebrate in a Sentence

invertebrate

adjective
  • Warmer, more acidic waters may also produce less of the invertebrate prey the whales prefer.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • In the wild, these slugs are known to feed on hydroids, an invertebrate marine organism.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Perhaps this creature climbed through ancient forests, looking for invertebrate morsels to eat.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2021
  • With their keen vision and deadly-accurate pounce, jumping spiders are the cats of the invertebrate world.
    — Sciencenow, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2012
  • Each sphere is teeming with invertebrate life, hosting creatures such as tardigrades, commonly known as water bears.
    — Candice Wang, Popular Science, 28 May 2020
  • Scientists have found pieces of leg or an animal’s back, and this latest, largest invertebrate fossil is missing its head and other parts.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • There will be hand-on training to conduct water quality testing and macro-invertebrate sampling.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There will be hands-on training to conduct water quality testing and macro-invertebrate sampling.
    — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There will be hands-on training to conduct water quality testing and macro-invertebrate sampling.
    — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There will be hands-on training to conduct water quality testing and macro-invertebrate sampling.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The reef will provide habitat for fish, oysters, invertebrate filter feeders and other marine life.
    — baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2017
  • Over the decades, invertebrate experts have disturbed dozens of types of mantises, bugging them with everything from live lizards to looming black balls.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But recent discoveries of large invertebrate predators have suggested that the oceans were by no means a safe place for small animals.
    — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Over four pounds of that rock went toward studying invertebrate life, exposing insects to the lunar particles by mixing it with their food.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2022
  • On these lands, the general public are allowed to collect small amounts of plant and invertebrate fossils, says Polly.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The prevailing view at the time was that invertebrate immune systems were incapable of such discernment.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Thermal cameras or x-ray technology used to detect vertebrates doesn’t work for most invertebrate species.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2022
  • The lamprey is one of a handful of animals that exist on the boundary between vertebrates and our invertebrate forebears.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Thus far, 11 invertebrate species have been found in Antarctic ecosystems, including springtails, mites, and midges.
    — Priya Shukla, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • These invertebrate meals become harder to find during the cold of winter, which is why the owls commonly migrate south to Mexico.
    — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • But there are also large numbers of small invertebrate animals, including insects, which are the foundations of the ecosystem.
    — National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2016
  • Foodies from other parts of Chile and beyond come to sample the native potatoes with oysters, king crabs and piure (a type of marine invertebrate) fresh from the sea.
    — Mark Johanson, The Economist, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Corals are invertebrate animals with simple stomachs and mouths surrounded by tentacles.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Sea squirts also give us a very useful illustration of the vertebrates’ closest invertebrate relatives.
    — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
  • The rippling became hypnotically regular, from right to left, like an invertebrate sea creature undulating with the waves.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Luque wasn't initially planning on studying invertebrate fossils; he had been drawn to paleontology by the promise of dinosaurs and ancient mammals.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Octopuses rank among the smartest invertebrate animals.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And Fiorillo spent time looking for the burrows of small invertebrate animals, similar to ancient crayfish.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • An outbreak of the spruce worm — an invertebrate pest — in the boreal regions of Canada and northern Minnesota might be attracting the finches, looking for a meal.
    — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Fossils reveal when the major types of sound-production—and sound-detection—structures appeared in the forerunners of today’s invertebrate and vertebrate creatures.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022

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