How to Use puffer fish in a Sentence

puffer fish

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  • Too much tetrodotoxin from a puffer fish can kill a person.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • In the test, an antibody can bind to one of the spike proteins (the antigens) that cover the surface of the virus like the spines on a puffer fish.
    — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 7 May 2020
  • The sculptures, which started with a puffer fish in 2012, were inspired by a trip to Florida.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Practice slow and steady breathing with the help of a popular puffer fish, suggests Hall Brown.
    — Amy Capetta, Good Housekeeping, 31 May 2022
  • Nets full of presents and ornaments are suspended from the ceiling among the glowing puffer fish.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Pumpkin toadlets are poisonous, secreting the same toxin found in fugu, or puffer fish.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2021
  • Its shelves are lined with giant lobster claws, spiny skeletons of puffer fish, and vintage glass jars filled with tiny puka shells.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2021
  • For Thacher & Rye, the puffer fish are seasoned with barbecue spices and dappled with a sambal fueled in part with fish peppers, sorghum and red wine vinegar.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The puffer fish is comically ugly but tasty enough that adventurous eaters ignore the fact that parts of it are poisonous.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Similar to their cousin, the puffer fish, the porcupinefish is covered in strong spines and has the ability to swallow up water to puff up its body into an orb when threatened.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • When provoked, puffer fish release a nerve toxin; large doses of it can be deadly, but small amounts can produce a narcotic effect.
    — Andrews McMeel Syndication, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • In more than a dozen fruit-forward drinks from bar director Nathaniel Smith, everything from the glassware (a glass puffer fish and a ceramic Great White shark) to the garnishes (a flamingo pool floatie) evokes summer fun in the tropics.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 20 July 2021
  • The Hiramatsu puts a particular focus on food—the hotel actually started out as a restaurant—and makes use of local produce on Shima to curate a unique menu from spiny lobster, fugu (puffer fish), ormers and rock oysters.
    — Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Westerners have never quite understood the reverence in Japan for fugu, alternately known in English as puffer fish, globefish or blowfish, of the family Tetraodontidae.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020

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