Example Sentences

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Another fossil shows a sharklike creature with bony armor on its front - an unusual combination.

From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2022

He later grew a sharklike fang, he claimed, between his front teeth.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2021

He just becomes more sharklike as the story progresses.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2017

But for marine biologists, it’s called toothfish, a bottom-dwelling species so named because it has two sharklike rows of teeth, one in front of the other.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2015

They had sharklike teeth and leathery skin in colors ranging from coral red to ink black.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan