How to Use white shark in a Sentence

white shark

noun
  • That could impact white sharks, too.
    — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The white shark sheared the striped bass in half, and then quickly took off.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 3 June 2025
  • Both are primary prey for white sharks.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • The app helps raise awareness of the presence of white sharks off the coast.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • The first white shark of the summer was tagged last month off of Chatham.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Dusky sharks are not as beefy as white sharks, and their tail movements are more snake-like.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • But these juvenile white sharks may be naive to orcas.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • That was the last fatal white shark bite of a human off the Cape.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 16 Sep. 2025
  • And then, on cue, a massive white shark swims up and commences to dining.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • Somewhere not far from the shore swims a group of five or more juvenile white sharks.
    — Gina Errico, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Killer whales and white sharks are their primary predators.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • While a white shark’s fin is triangular, a dusky shark’s fin slopes and curves.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • Great white sharks, also known as white sharks, can weigh up to 4,000 lbs.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Alerts are issued when a white shark sighting is confirmed close to a public beach.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • In the white sharks’ absence, South Africa’s west coast is changing.
    — David Shiffman, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And both of these species are about as different from a white shark as a dog is from a kangaroo.
    — Gavin Naylor, The Conversation, 25 July 2019
  • The predator measured 12 feet and was a mature, male white shark.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Trump, of course, moves ever forward, a white shark leading a white movement.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Naylor recently co-authored a study about white sharks.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Of that, at least 195 of the incidents involved white sharks.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • The rarity of attacks suggests white sharks do not view humans as prey.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Lowe and other shark scientists trace the white shark resurgence to those measures.
    — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
  • This is the third white shark Chisholm has made a record of this spring off the New Jersey coast.
    — Dan Radel, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • The first white shark of the 2022 season has been tagged off Cape Cod.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 July 2022
  • At other white shark hot spots around the world there is always a kill zone — a place where more predation events occur.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 July 2019
  • Great white shark kills Sydney swimmer in 'chilling' attack, city's first in decades.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Keenan’s white shark is not the only one in South Florida waters.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Like clockwork, more and more white shark reports are starting to roll in as the apex predators move north for the summer and fall.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 June 2026
  • Dozens of white shark sightings have been reported in the area in the past week – some of them known to the conservancy.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 30 July 2022
  • The fauna is more dangerous, because there are a lot of tiger, bull and white sharks, which are very aggressive.
    — Luis F. Sánchez, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017

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