How to Use hammerhead in a Sentence

hammerhead

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  • This isn’t the first big hammerhead caught in the area.
    — Michelle Gant, Fox News, 4 June 2018
  • But in what should be the busiest time of the year, not one hammerhead could be found.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013
  • In the video, a hammerhead shark is caught by a man with a fishing rod.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The shark was a hammerhead believed to be about 13 feet long.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 26 June 2019
  • There are at least eight hammerhead species, enough to fill a tool belt.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The Hammerheads scored two runs in the seventh before Lakeland drove in three in the ninth to take a 5-3 lead.
    — Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2017
  • The best painting here looks like a kind of hammerhead on a torso.
    — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The trip is spent searching out tiger, hammerhead, reef and nurse sharks, so the fish can be tagged and released.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2019
  • Then the divers saw other sharks—a tiger, a great hammerhead, and an oceanic white tip.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2014
  • The hammerhead species, which can grow to about a foot long, can pose a risk to humans, Morgan-Olvera said.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
  • Fishermen claim that one of the sharks is a 15-foot-long, half-ton great hammerhead named Big Moe.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 12 Aug. 2020
  • In the episode, Phelps will race against a reef shark, a hammerhead, and in the final competition, a great white.
    — Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2017
  • Each time something struck, his heart leapt, but not once did his team pull up a hammerhead.
    — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2013
  • The sharks in the area, hammerheads and tigers, are relatively small.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • That footage also includes shots of divers feeding fish to some of the hammerheads by hand.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 June 2024
  • Still, hammerheads manage to dive thousands of feet into the ocean’s cold depths in search of prey.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • During the fire, firefighters cut away a 5-foot-wide section of the deck just before the hammerhead to keep flames from spreading the length of the pier.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2024
  • So far, Mr. Trump, who lives by a hammerhead shark’s swim-or-die credo, has shown no signs of slowing down.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 20 May 2017
  • The Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica is one of the main breeding grounds for hammerhead sharks.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The outside of the building has been repainted and now sports the famous hammerhead shark hanging on the side.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2020
  • But there are many are sharks in the Gulf – hammerhead sharks, mako sharks, tiger sharks and whale sharks are most commonly spotted off the coast, Wells said.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • So far the line has produced a couple of dead eels and an endangered hammerhead shark.
    — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Aside from the silvery sheen, Starship MK1’s most notable feature are the two sharp fins extending from the nose like the head of a hammerhead shark .
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The smiling family and their catch—a large great hammerhead.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2014
  • Later that day a 12-foot hammerhead swam slowly past my kayak.
    — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • That list also includes hammerheads, lemon sharks and white sharks.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 4 June 2019
  • Invasive hammerheads have been known to wreak havoc in their new homes.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
  • The shark menu for gators includes the big but docile nurse shark, the yellow-hued lemon shark, which are about 11 feet at adulthood, and the bonnethead, a type of hammerhead shark that grows to about five feet.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • That hammerhead is far from the only shark species that keeps the Colombian biologist busy.
    — Angela Posada-Swafford, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2024

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