Example Sentences

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The researchers used baited traps to lure the morays to the surface of inland caves that connect to the ocean on Australia’s Christmas Island and the Philippines’s Panglao Island.

From Science Magazine • May 18, 2023

We hope you can still manage a smile, even as our societal morays crumble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2022

That, to me, is trying to impose contemporary morays onto history.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2020

The sediment contained bones belonging to eels, morays, conger, mullet and sea bream.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

The morays wouldn't attack unless disturbed, and there was no reason for disturbing them.

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)