How to Use jellyfish in a Sentence

jellyfish

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  • The phantom is among the largest jellyfish in the world.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The flags flew for most of last week due jellyfish in the water.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 11 July 2022
  • All of a sudden, there’s a wall of jellyfish in front of you.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2022
  • Her door swung open and the spill of light from the hallway washed over the ceiling and drowned her jellyfish.
    — Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
  • The pilot just has to get the funnel right up to this golf tee jellyfish, and the suction does the rest.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • There is some debate about the best way to treat a jellyfish sting.
    — Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The ends of the auditory nerve look like green jellyfish; the sheaths around the nerve fibers licorice red.
    — Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The ocean, on the other hand, brims with see-through species, from jellyfish and sponges to crustaceans, cephalopods, and even fish.
    — Luna Shyr, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021
  • So the five animals were the crab, the salamander, a bat, a shark, and a jellyfish.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But some can be deadly, such as stings from the box jellyfish.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
  • At first, a few small jellyfish emerged, then a piece of plastic.
    — Author: Simon Denyer, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
  • These odd jellyfish had one role in life: to go away and never be seen again.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • Isaac’s were stuffed with jellyfish and plum, mine with mustard greens and salmon flakes.
    — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The shape of these flashes, like a jellyfish, extends both up and down toward the ground.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The wine is named after jellyfish, which are able to navigate and thrive in the darkest abyss of the deep sea.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Keep in mind that swarms of jellyfish arrive around the end of June and depart about a month later.
    — Michele Chabin, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
  • There’s a brand new, million-light-year space jellyfish in town.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
  • How to relax while swimming in the ocean, even around jellyfish.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • What will happen to me if I am stung by a clinging jellyfish?
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • What is the lifespan of the jellyfish? Jellyfish do not live long.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Throw in a fake jellyfish as bait, and the vehicle was ready to look at the giant squids more closely.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The 224-seat, open-air dining room features a large fish tank filled with jellyfish.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • In the ocean, jellyfish can shoot out their harpoons about 100 times as fast as the shrimp, but the action is not repeatable.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The scuba divers took a photo of the jellyfish and continued their dive.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
  • Before that, researchers captured footage of a rare jellyfish for the first time.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The jellyfish has 24 different eyes and eight of these have lenses, like our own eyes.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • People can watch live videos of jellyfish, penguins and sharks from their homes.
    — Mariel Padilla, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The water needs to be warm, still and clean for the floating fellows to transform from the polyp stage to the medusa stage, a fully mature jellyfish.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 23 Aug. 2022
  • That’s another way of saying there are a freaking ton of jellyfish in the ocean.
    — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • For most of the day on June 7, the flags had flown yellow, reflecting the Gulf’s calm surf and good conditions, and purple, indicating possible jellyfish or stingrays in the water.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024

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