gill
Example Sentences
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Battling strong currents, Ralph Pace captured this image of a swell shark egg case, revealing a glowing embryo, complete with gill slits and a yolk sac.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
But by the time the video footage begins, the underdog octopus had already asserted its toughness, blocking off the eel’s eyes and stuffing arms into its mouth and out the gill hole.
From New York Times • May 17, 2024
Their wiggling catch arrives alive, not smushed as in a purse seine, or ripped and bleeding from a gill net.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
Intriguingly, the blood supply to the fins of jawless fishes emerges between the sixth and seventh gill arches.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
The blue sharks were smaller, usually no more than four or five feet long, and the most attractive, sleek and slender, with small mouths and discreet gill slits.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
