stingray - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • see: We also saw a stingray which came up for bits of fish.
  • spot: The larger reef fish are also present as are blue spotted stingrays resting half hidden on the sandy bottom.
  • include: A reasonable amount of fish life including a large stingray on the sand.
  • find: We came round a corner, and found an immense stingray, lying in a ' cove ' .
  • feed: The girls especially enjoyed feeding the stingrays, we went back twice.

Converse of subject

  • kill: The 44-year-old was killed by a stingray whilst filming a documentary off Port Douglas in northern Queensland.
  • sting: I'll attacked by moray eels, bitten by barracudas, stung by stingrays Not if you don't attack them first.

Adjective modifier

  • southern: At Lobster Hole there are southern stingrays, nurse sharks, sea fans and sea whips, and loads of lobster.
  • large: Several large stingrays were also caught, topped by a monster of 56 kilos.
  • spotted: Hin Na Ling Depth: 30 m The Dive A wall descends to a sandy patch covered with blue spotted stingrays.
  • blue: Hin Na Ling Depth: 30 m The Dive A wall descends to a sandy patch covered with blue spotted stingrays.
  • huge: Eight huge stingrays seemed to be homing in on the divers below.
  • giant: A series of dramatic granitic pinnacles just break the surface and are the home for giant stingrays, reef sharks and pristine coral formations.

Modifies a noun

  • city: It was great to see the eagle rays tho, and stingray city was the most fun I'd ever had underwater.
  • leather: The concern is that if consumer demand for stingray leather increases, they will suffer more intentional, widespread exploitation than in the past.
  • spine: The king used a small lancet made of stingray spine through the foreskin just behind the head of the penis on the left side.

Noun used with modifier

  • barracuda: Bottle of wine to orient beach a barracuda stingray.
  • freshwater: They are obviously very flat, but do notice that the compression is different to that of a freshwater stingray, for example.
  • sleeping: Took the video camera again, even as we descended we spotted a sleeping stingray and another bigger one further on.

Possessives

  • barb: Irwin, 44, died in September after he was impaled by a stingray's barb while snorkeling off Australia.

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