How to Use sawfish in a Sentence

sawfish

noun
  • The male sawfish washed up dead along the same shoreline where it was spotted last week.
    — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Should the sawfish run into one, the crew would surely see the thrashing.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Soon, there was a bite on the line and Atherton watched a sawfish come out of the water.
    — Ed Killer, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • One person would hold the rod and drag ashore a thrashing, 200-pound sawfish.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Grubbs is also a member of the sawfish recovery team and was on the boat last week when the crew caught the healthy sawfish.
    — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Elasmobranch fish, which includes sharks, rays, sawfish and skates have five to seven gill openings on each side.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Ceebu jen, a hearty fish stew, is the national dish, and sawfish — once plentiful but now rare — grace bank notes.
    — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2017
  • The sawfish is very closely related to stingrays, not so much sharks, but is sometimes caught using the same methods.
    — Ed Killer, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Two dead leopard sharks, a dead hammerhead shark, and the snout of a smalltooth sawfish -- an endangered species -- were also found in the search.
    — Maria Morava and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
  • It's even been seen in sharks and rays that are in the care of humans, including sawfish, blacktip sharks, leopard sharks and several other types.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • Heath and his team of fellow sawfish biologists are monitoring the calls daily.
    — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • The tag will record the sawfish’s movements for the next decade and will be used a part of wide-ranging partnership to monitor sawfish populations.
    — Warren Kulo | [email protected], al, 11 July 2023
  • Kyne and his colleagues are testing devices that generate electric fields underwater to make sawfish swim away from nets so they don’t get entangled.
    — David Shiffman, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
  • Federal and state wildlife agencies are beginning an effort to rescue and rehabilitate sawfish to find out why.
    — Maria Piñero, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Neither sawfish showed signs of injuries or other apparent death indications.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Unlike previous studies of extinct and current sawfish, this one probed the internal structure of the scales’ hard outer layer, called enameloid.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Coupled with other recent developments, this find has raised scientists’ hopes for sawfish recovery.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
  • Tampa Bay is an important nursery habitat for young sawfish, and its cooler, northern waters may become more crucial as oceans warm due to climate change.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Researchers found a population of small tooth sawfish in Florida that’s just barely hanging on, Feldheim said.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • However, sharks and other elasmobranchs—a group of cartilaginous fish including rays, skates and sawfish—are very sensitive to electric fields.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • This analysis tracks how the depletion of the largest species—like sawfishes and rhino rays—began in nearshore waters and has since cascaded through the food web, affecting even the deep-sea habitats.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The sawfish, which are endangered and reliably found only in southernmost Florida, started dying.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Biologists with multiple agencies and universities are investigating if the deaths of the sawfish are related to the broader fish kill.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In 2023, Wiley’s group tagged and released three juvenile sawfish on a sand flat near the mangrove shoreline of Rattlesnake Key.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Smalltooth sawfish are related to sharks and were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2003.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2018
  • The Germans called their radioteleprinter equipment Sägefisch, or sawfish, reportedly because of the radio signals' sawtooth wave.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Rhino rays range in size, from 2 to 3 feet long (less than 1 meter) at one extreme to the largest species, the green sawfish (Pristis zijsron), which can grow to 23 feet (7 meters).
    — David Shiffman, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
  • For example, fishing boats often haul in smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) as bycatch, or accidental catch, because their saws become tangled in fishing gear.
    — David Shiffman, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
  • Just before the report of the sick sawfish, Wiley’s team tagged and released a healthy adult offshore of Tampa Bay, concluding a five-year mission to catch the first-ever adult in local waters.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Both smalltooth sawfish and their largetooth cousins were plentiful in the Southeast until the mid-20th century, when commercial and recreational fishing exploded.
    — Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025

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