How to Use moray eel in a Sentence

moray eel

noun
  • Manta rays glide gracefully over the reef, as moray eels pop out of the coral crevices when a meal comes into view.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Joe Ford looked at the moray eel and ordered another Bloody Mary.
    — Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Or oversize moray eels waiting to sink their fangs into the soft flesh of unsuspecting human prey.
    — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • That is the dilemma facing the moray eel, a predator famous for its nasty bite and ability to devour large prey.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Not relying on water means that a moray eel foraging on land can snarf down dinner without needing to call off the hunt by returning to the water.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Typically, Muller has seen the hermit crabs in crevices within underwater dens shared by lobsters and moray eels.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Find venomous and beautiful lionfish with their long flowing fins, spiny scorpionfish and the blackedge moray eel with its long fin running the entire length of its body.
    — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • This warm vacation destination is home to delicious seafood like moray eel and wines grown in Lanzarote’s mineral-rich volcanic soils.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
  • This image shows a hookjaw moray eel, also called Bayer's moray, which skulks around reefs in the waters of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Not Impressed In Sea World's aquarium, rock-like crabs and moray eels hardly seemed to notice the tourists pressing their noses against the glass walls of the creatures' homes.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Living here are shoals of technicolor fish, some the size of a fingernail—like the baby clownfish hiding in gently swaying anemone—others larger than a human, like the giant moray eel coiled around net fire coral.
    — Jessica Vincent, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Sabuncuoglu’s own photograph of a dead moray eel, photographed in Bodrum, Turkey, caught attention because the death was caused by the eel entangling itself in a fishing line.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • While many coral reef residents, such as groupers and moray eels, work together when hunting for their mutual benefit, the trumpetfish’s sneaky shadowing of larger fish seems to be solely for its own benefit.
    — Annie Roth, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Located across from Legoland in Grapevine Mills mall, the aquarium has a sea turtle rescue center, a shipwreck area that’s home to a green moray eel, a jellyfish nursery, a stingray bay and more.
    — Deborah Fleck, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The ocean includes a diverse variety of life to watch—including the brown moray eel, giant anemone, Atlantic trumpetfish, yellow barracuda, flaming reef lobsters and zebra seabream.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Wardill notes that numerous other examples of animals collaborating across species exist, including groupers hunting with moray eels and badgers working with coyotes.
    — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Just a South Pacific coral reef pulsing with a carnival of color, including a rare sighting of a free-swimming moray eel, a hawksbill sea turtle, and immense schools of snapper, convict tangs and jacks.
    — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Renowned Madrid chef Juanjo López is the brains behind creative dishes such as avocado with mojo sauce and crispy fried moray eel, which pairs well with the smoothly complex César house volcanic wine.
    — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
  • These diffusiophoresis simulations were able to replicate the intricate patterns on the skin of the ornate boxfish and jewel moray eel, which isn’t possible through Turing’s theory alone.
    — Ankur Gupta, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Scuba diving with hammerhead sharks, moray eels, and sea lions at Isla Espíritu Santo or stand-up paddle boarding at secluded beaches such as Balandra.
    — Jenny Peters, National Geographic, 25 July 2019
  • Built on the side of Le Rocher, Monaco’s perched old town, the museum features more than 6,000 species, from Mediterranean octopuses and moray eels to tropical sharks and sea horses.
    — Lane Nieset, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Laura Rink, associate director of operations for Heal the Bay Aquarium, greets me with a friendly smile and ushers me inside, past undersea murals and aquaria housing moon jellies, sharks, and moray eels.
    — Jennifer Adler, Vox, 7 July 2024
  • At Punta Papa, divers can explore a WWII shipwreck, while, closer to the harbor, the Grotte di Pilato is an impressive series of tunnels and fish ponds carved into the tuff by ancient Romans, who used them to breed moray eels.
    — Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026

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