How to Use tiger shark in a Sentence

tiger shark

noun
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  • In the open ocean, the sand tiger shark has been known to migrate more than 1,500 miles.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • Mark pins a 14 or so foot tiger shark alongside the team's 17 foot whaler.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2013
  • The species that are making headlines are the sandbar shark, the dusky shark, and the sand-tiger shark.
    — Curbed, 21 July 2022
  • In the tank live three sand tiger sharks, none shorter than eight feet long.
    — Laura Brown, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2015
  • One day, the women recalled, a pack of tiger sharks found them.
    — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Few fish can match the blazing speed of a mako, the sheer power of a great white, or the great cunning of a tiger shark.
    — William McKeever, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2019
  • But the bull shark, along with the tiger shark and the great white, is among the species considered most dangerous.
    — Aric Chokey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • This is an oral history in the sense that foothills are made of feet, or that a tiger shark is part tiger, part shark.
    — Jim McLauchlin, WIRED, 12 June 2018
  • Enright said it was reported a 8-foot tiger shark bit the man.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The swimming pigs of the Bahamas are becoming the favorite food of the local tiger shark.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • There’s small fish, not bigger than a grain of rice, all the way up to your large predatory fish, tiger sharks.
    — Laura Klairmont, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
  • What are land birds like woodpeckers doing in the stomach of a tiger shark?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2012
  • There are more than 3,600 animals to look at, from African penguins to sand tiger sharks.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The dead echidna was still whole when the tiger shark vomited it back up, with its spines and legs still intact.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
  • This explains why sand tiger sharks give birth to one very well-fed pup, which is already three feet long at birth.
    — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • While tiger shark attacks are not common in the Red Sea, the area did see two such fatal attacks last year, per The Guardian.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • Only a few of the largest shark species, such as tiger sharks, actually play the role of apex predator.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • The video shows a large tiger shark stealthily approaching the bow of Haraguchi's kayak before opening its mouth to bite the kayak's left side.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 May 2023
  • The person punched the shark, which was said to be a tiger shark about 4 feet long, and a wave pushed the person back to shore and away from the animal, Bellone said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 July 2022
  • Officials believe the attack was by a tiger shark, which left behind a 4-inch gash on the surfer's leg.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 14 July 2022
  • It's believed he was attacked by a bull shark or tiger shark, reported the New York Post.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Drone footage captured by rangers shows dozens of tiger sharks feeding on the carcass of a humpback whale off the Australian coast.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 June 2023
  • The South Texas man said the catch marked his first tiger shark, though he’s been fishing for more than 20 years in the South Padre area and has reeled in hammerhead and bull sharks in the past.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2018
  • A number of tiger sharks have washed up dead on the shores of Western Australia without rhyme or reason.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Woman in Texas catches 8-foot 'dream' tiger shark, wild photos show.
    — Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • Smalltooth sand tiger sharks grow up to four meters (around 13 feet) in length and are usually found toward the seabed.
    — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The Perrigo family caught three rarely seen sand tiger sharks on March 28.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But there are many are sharks in the Gulf – hammerhead sharks, mako sharks, tiger sharks and whale sharks are most commonly spotted off the coast, Wells said.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Bacilio Hernandez of Corpus Christi caught, tagged and released the 11-foot tiger shark last week.
    — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • Larger tiger sharks, for example, are more of a threat than smaller sharks, who may avoid bigger dolphins.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024

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