remoras
- plural of remora.
Example Sentences
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That starkness gives the movie the in-the-moment immediacy of a nature doc about a shark and a swarm of remoras.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
One or two remora would be unlikely to slow down a 40-foot whale shark, says Meekan, but when you start adding more and more remoras, those costs can add up.
From National Geographic • Feb. 13, 2018
I imagine it feels similar for the entourage of tuna, remoras and other hangers-on that seem to admire its underbelly and innocently chase a free ride from its slipstream.
From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2017
In the bright midmorning light you could see the little yellow-blue pilot fish swimming in front of the sharks’ pointed snouts, remoras clinging to their sides and copepod parasites in their eyes and gills.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2015
The other kids are bouncing around me like remoras swimming under a great white.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
