sand shark

noun

1. sand tiger.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sand shark¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

A sand shark passed over Mom’s head, swimming through the bubbles rising from her regulator.

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In New Mexico, Ken Pitts, a senior aquarist at the Albuquerque Aquarium, was nipped on the left arm by a sand shark as he fed fish in 2005, as reported by the Albuquerque Journal.

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Excepting one Real Housewives reality TV star – who said of her sand shark and her horn shark, Horney: “They’re my babies!” – every shark owner interviewed by the WSJ gave some justification about power.

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But the two Princeton graduate students weren’t trying to catch some sort of desert-dwelling dogfish or a literal “sand shark.”

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A sand shark was spread on the ground, cut cleanly down the middle.

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