How to Use jellyfish in a Sentence

jellyfish

noun
  • Be alert for stingrays and jellyfish.
    — Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The flags flew for most of last week due jellyfish in the water.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 11 July 2022
  • There is some debate about the best way to treat a jellyfish sting.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2023
  • All of a sudden, there’s a wall of jellyfish in front of you.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2022
  • But some can be deadly, such as stings from the box jellyfish.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • At first, a few small jellyfish emerged, then a piece of plastic.
    — Author: Simon Denyer, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Some dine on other jellyfish — even their own young when food is scarce.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • How did the jellyfish turn into a squid?
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a brand new, million-light-year space jellyfish in town.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Isaac’s were stuffed with jellyfish and plum, mine with mustard greens and salmon flakes.
    — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Nothing can ruin a day at the beach quite like a jellyfish sting.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • The species is the largest of the 200 species of jellyfish in the world.
    — Mike Stunson, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
  • This concern has come up in the past with the viral jellyfish hair.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 25 Sep. 2017
  • See video of the giant jellyfish at the top of this story.
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Nothing ruins a day at the beach faster than a jellyfish sting.
    — Ilima Loomis, Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • In this case, Moon jellyfish are largely to blame for the stings.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 13 June 2018
  • Of course, like a jellyfish, I was born without a spinal cord.
    — Jeff Manes, Post-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2017
  • How to relax while swimming in the ocean, even around jellyfish.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Her door swung open and the spill of light from the hallway washed over the ceiling and drowned her jellyfish.
    — Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • What will happen to me if I am stung by a clinging jellyfish?
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • The tiny larvae of thimble jellyfish can be in the seaweed as well.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • Plus, jellyfish are something guests have wanted to see at the park for a longtime.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Now the Arctic is a warm body, full of jellyfish and black chokeweed.
    — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
  • The shape of these flashes, like a jellyfish, extends both up and down toward the ground.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The pilot just has to get the funnel right up to this golf tee jellyfish, and the suction does the rest.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • That means sharing the coastal outdoors with jellyfish.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
  • From the mental lives of worms, wasps and jellyfish, Sacks turns to humans.
    — Laura J. Snyder, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Instead, Smith has made a strong case that a species of jellyfish should be named after him.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Xu notes that the jellyfish’s sting cells cannot penetrate human skin.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The fibers and translucence of jellyfish and deep water life were a key theme in the 19 looks.
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2019

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