shark

Example Sentences

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“These companies, they’re like a shark, they have to keep moving,” said Christopher Whalen of the credit-markets research and advisory firm Whalen Global Advisors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

“As we speak, a juvenile white shark is swimming underneath a surfer or swimmer somewhere in Southern California,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The study appears in the journal Animal Behaviour under the title: "Rolling in the deep: drivers of social preferences and social interactions within a bull shark aggregation in Fiji."

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the Labour MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill, compared the terms of student loans "to something that a loan shark would offer".

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

But he was always moving like a shark, swimming in order to breathe.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen