How to Use moray eel in a Sentence

moray eel

noun
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  • Manta rays glide gracefully over the reef, as moray eels pop out of the coral crevices when a meal comes into view.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Not Impressed In Sea World's aquarium, rock-like crabs and moray eels hardly seemed to notice the tourists pressing their noses against the glass walls of the creatures' homes.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Suddenly, a snowflake moray eel named Qani heaves its muscled bucatini of a body out of the water and onto the ramp.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2021
  • This image shows a hookjaw moray eel, also called Bayer's moray, which skulks around reefs in the waters of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Or oversize moray eels waiting to sink their fangs into the soft flesh of unsuspecting human prey.
    — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Another speared lionfish was offered to a green moray eel.
    — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Find venomous and beautiful lionfish with their long flowing fins, spiny scorpionfish and the blackedge moray eel with its long fin running the entire length of its body.
    — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Mutton snapper, large stingrays, spotted eagle rays and moray eels are also common.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Not relying on water means that a moray eel foraging on land can snarf down dinner without needing to call off the hunt by returning to the water.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Located across from Legoland in Grapevine Mills mall, the aquarium has a sea turtle rescue center, a shipwreck area that’s home to a green moray eel, a jellyfish nursery, a stingray bay and more.
    — Deborah Fleck, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Typically, Muller has seen the hermit crabs in crevices within underwater dens shared by lobsters and moray eels.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Sabuncuoglu’s own photograph of a dead moray eel, photographed in Bodrum, Turkey, caught attention because the death was caused by the eel entangling itself in a fishing line.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Just a South Pacific coral reef pulsing with a carnival of color, including a rare sighting of a free-swimming moray eel, a hawksbill sea turtle, and immense schools of snapper, convict tangs and jacks.
    — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The ocean includes a diverse variety of life to watch—including the brown moray eel, giant anemone, Atlantic trumpetfish, yellow barracuda, flaming reef lobsters and zebra seabream.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Scuba diving with hammerhead sharks, moray eels, and sea lions at Isla Espíritu Santo or stand-up paddle boarding at secluded beaches such as Balandra.
    — Jenny Peters, National Geographic, 25 July 2019

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