How to Use cuttlefish in a Sentence

cuttlefish

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  • Lorcan has the best find of the day: a cuttlefish bone smoothed by the sea, silk-soft.
    — Longreads, 4 May 2021
  • But not all is equal in the eyes of cuttlefish and human.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
  • But no one is quite sure how a cuttlefish brain takes what the eyes see and gets the muscles of the skin to copy it.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • An inky battle ensued, and the researchers caught it all on video—the first record of cuttlefish competing for a mate in the wild.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Her whole speech was more confused than a cuttlefish trying to play parcheesi.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 July 2021
  • The octopus brain is one of the most remarkable on Earth, and its cousin the cuttlefish is no slouch, either.
    — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The new marshmallow test that the cuttlefish were given saw the cuttlefish put in a small area with crab meat.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Or is cuttlefish in a five-spice sauce and a Bombay Sapphire gin more your fancy?
    — Shivani Vora, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
  • Because the tint comes from a natural source, shades of sepia vary based on the local diets of the cuttlefish and where the pigment was made.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most shops close between noon and 4 p.m., so grab hummus and grilled cuttlefish for lunch at Parisa, located in the souk.
    — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2017
  • Small muscles tug those sacs open or closed to rapidly change the cuttlefish’s color.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The master of disruptive coloration may be the cuttlefish, which can change the color and pattern of its skin.
    — Mary Bates, Animals, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The idea for the study arose because previous work has shown that cuttlefish can remember past events.
    — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • And 8 years ago, another animal joined the club: the cuttlefish.
    — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Their lack of yoked eyes is not the only thing that’s different about a cuttlefish’s stereopsis.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Though a far cry from a human, big-brained cuttlefish are good candidates for stereo vision.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
  • In Japan, raw squid (or its cousin, cuttlefish) is a popular choice at sushi bars — beautiful white translucent slices draped over the sweet rice.
    — David Tanis, New York Times, 7 July 2017
  • And at the omakase restaurant the Araki in London, the chef Marty Lau slices white cuttlefish and squid into fine ribbons and tops them with a spoonful of golden roe.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The same sense of discovery rang true with cuttlefish — squid’s more brawny cousin — stir-fried in bouncy sections with vegetables in a twangy sour sauce.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Lunch service starts this week, featuring dishes like crab with leeks and sweet herbs and a stew of cuttlefish, mussels and chickpeas.
    — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But cuttlefish and other cephalopods may be an intriguing test case.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • The feat is the first time researchers have knocked out a gene in cephalopods, a class of invertebrates that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus.
    — Lydia Rivers, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The pair took a gondola across the Grand Canal to the nearly 1,000-year-old Rialto fish market to pick up cuttlefish (seppia in Italian), a cousin of the squid and the octopus.
    — Janelle Davis, CNN, 1 May 2022
  • In other words, cuttlefish can’t perfectly match a coral reef.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Her team recorded nerve signals from three cephalopod species: a cuttlefish and two species of octopus.
    — Danna Staaf, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago.
    — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Long ago, the ancestors of octopuses, and indeed the ancestors of all other cephalopods like cuttlefish and squid, took refuge in the safety of their shells.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2015
  • Other types of cephalopods include squid, nautiloids and cuttlefish.
    — Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
  • However, the process of smelling or tasting is much less clear in cephalopods --a group of mollusks that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish -- living in the ocean.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Another lesson Kocabas learned from the cuttlefish is the need to portray texture.
    — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2018

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