SHARK in a Sentence

Learn SHARK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

29 example sentences for SHARK, such as:

1. Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks' fins.
2. Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark.
3. The smell of blood sent the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
4. This particular feat of the shark seems all but miraculous.
5. The boat now flew through the boiling water like a shark all fins.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHARK
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shark
 v.  play the shark; act with trickery
 n.  any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Sam loudly explained to Carol, "Ella is our shark at elocuting."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Look ye now, young man, thy lungs are a sort of soft, d'ye see; thou dost not talk shark a bit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
3  Provoke him, and he will buckle to a shark.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
4  So that not the fierce-fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white-shrouded bear or shark.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
6  For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
7  The boat now flew through the boiling water like a shark all fins.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
8  This particular feat of the shark seems all but miraculous.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
9  You is sharks, sartin; but if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  I'm bressed if he ain't more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself, muttered the old man, limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
11  A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
12  Lamb chops were as exotic as sharks' fins.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  Only the infidel sharks in the audacious seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
14  Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
15  Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
Example Sentence:
1  This puzzle would tear the organization between opposing choices: for or against eating shark fins.
2  They have declared this week Shark Week, and are running events aimed at bolstering opposition to shark fin soup. Shark fin soup emerged as a culinary delicacy in the 1400s, during the Ming Dynasty.
3  The movie 'Jaws' is about a man-eating shark.
4  By killing the sharks we are in turn killing plankton and destroying out atmosphere.
5  When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark; And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark; But, when the tide rises and sharks are around.
6  There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales.
7  The smell of blood sent the sharks into a feeding frenzy.