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jellyfish - use in sentences
Converse of subject
- sting: Hugh attacked - Jan 05 Hugh Grant stung by jellyfish in Barbados.
Converse of object
- strand: She tells us how she was afraid of the stranded jellyfish.
- see: On your right you see a small round jellyfish floating upwards past you.
- eat: My Chinese boyfriend made me eat jellyfish Oh the joys of going for Dim Sum!
- include: Other potential hazards include jellyfish, Force 6 winds and waves around two meters high.
- know: Did you know that jellyfish were on the planet before dinosaurs?
Adjective modifier
- pelagic: I was participating in an English Nature drop-down video survey and found dense shoals of this beautiful pelagic jellyfish.
- tiny: A tiny jellyfish, barely the size of a 10 pence piece slowly pulses past, about six inches from my mask.
- large: Comment by Steve Barker 27 July 2001 There was an Evening Argus report of a large jellyfish off Worthing.
- true: The Hydrozoa differ from true jellyfish not only in size.
- small: On your right you see a small round jellyfish floating upwards past you.
- poisonous: Watch out for dangerous sea creatures like sharks and poisonous jellyfish - some are deadly.
Modifies a noun
- sting: Q. I had a really painful jellyfish sting within seconds of entering the sea in Malta last week.
- gene: The University of Missouri team inserted jellyfish genes into fetal pig cells grown in the laboratory.
- bloom: They should be able to tell you if there are any jellyfish blooms or a sudden influx of these creatures locally.
Noun used with modifier
- octopus: Report from Stella Turk 17 July 2002 Rhizostoma octopus jellyfish in Torquay harbor, Devon.
- freshwater: This membrane confuses me, because I hear that there is no fertilization membrane in Hydrozoa, to which freshwater jellyfish belongs.
- moon: There was lots of plankton and moon jellyfish, and one diver pair had seen a hammerhead here earlier in the day.
- box: A " stinger " suit would be recommended for divers to ward off box jellyfish.
- killer: They dance on the beach and are taken away by Slither and the killer jellyfish.
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