Example Sentences

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It’s home to the Devil’s Pinnacle, a top dive site frequented by reef sharks, manta rays and barracudas.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2022

Giant Nile crocodiles, aggressive bull sharks and enormous barracudas are all frequently spotted in the lagoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2018

And that was without ever making it to the permit-limited Sipadan, a 2,000-foot coral tower in open sea where hammerheads and barracudas school and where whale sharks are not an uncommon sight.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2016

But there they were, all the same, smiling fiendishly, like cartoon barracudas, as they ate up old orbits.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015

And being a sheepman connected to the Devine Company was like trying to raise mutton in a tank full of sharks, barracudas, and piranha fish.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols