gill

Example Sentences

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Their gill arch system forms a funnel that is widest at the mouth and narrows toward the gullet.

From Science Daily

It’s also helpful to show the gills located underneath its cap, Diaz said.

From Los Angeles Times

But the managers of alternative assets have this gigantic market squarely in their sights—especially now that institutional investors are stuffed to the gills with private assets they’ve been struggling to unload.

From The Wall Street Journal

For more than an hour, I lost myself in a flow state as I sought to replicate the slender mushroom’s fine gills and delicate but ragged skirt.

From The Wall Street Journal

Are we not warmed by the same ultraviolet rays, quenched by the same pirated water, ensnared in the same gill net of freeways?

From Los Angeles Times