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

Lana Sinapayen, an artificial life researcher who grew up in the Caribbean island of Martinique, said local fishermen often caught morays by placing squids on the shore and waiting for the eels to arrive.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2021

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

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2020

“I wouldn’t like one of those chaps to get after me,” the man said, indicating two big green morays.

From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Webster, Frank V.