How to Use shark in a Sentence

shark

noun
  • Turns out, that shark still has teeth.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Face the shark, don’t turn your back.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • Why did the shark travel so far?
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • You guys never jumped the shark.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2026
  • Rocha punched it in the nose and the shark let go and swam away.
    — Kim Chandler, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The sharks are tweaked on cocaine.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026
  • How do your shark sensors work?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There do not seem to be sharks circling.
    — Xuan Juliana Wang, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • These sharks live in deep, cold waters.
    — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Healthy sharks are tightly linked to healthy reefs.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • These sharks are believed to have come from there.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Walk through a tunnel of sharks and swirling schools.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This is not the first time cocaine has been found in sharks.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Kids will be wowed by the sharks swimming over their heads.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Kids will be wowed by the sharks swimming over their heads.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • Nana bought shark and snake hand puppets as gifts for them.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 17 May 2026
  • Could sharks, long feared, be poised for an image makeover?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • For theme parks, after all, can jump the shark, so to speak.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Then there’s the power of her hooks (those could snag a shark).
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Chinese are crazy for shark fins.
    — Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Or, perhaps, a place to put a tank filled with whale-shark pups.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Who was killed by a shark in Australia?
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Despite its name, the whale shark is not a whale but a type of shark.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And there’s a shark named Jamal.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The whale watch then found the shark’s liver with a bunch of birds around.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • What kind of shark killed the surfer in Australia?
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Like most sharks, though, Whitney hunts alone.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This car seat gap filler is so cool, that even the sharks have approved of it.
    — Katiee McKinstry, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Yet the female shark did not pursue me.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Bull sharks had been seen in the vicinity.
    — CBS News, 6 June 2026

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