Example Sentences

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"On the seabed of the river Fal, Cornwall, amongst beautiful pink maerl, many blennies have chosen to use discarded glass bottles as a shelter."

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024

It opened in 1934 near the Ballard Locks, featuring Alaska stickleback, pipe fish, yellow-banded perch, blennies and cultus cod, according to HistoryLink.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022

In his initial research, Dr Casewell read fang blenny studies carried out in the 1970s, where larger, predatory fish were "introduced" to the fang blennies.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2017

"They took the fang blennies into their mouths, then quickly started quivering and opened their mouths again," Dr Casewell described.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2017

Weevers and blennies, and crabs, with oysters and scallops, and sea-weeds of all kinds—a regular mixture if we go over a part that hasn’t been much swept lately.”

From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.