turtle

Do you think Edward's feeding the turtle arrr-tichokes?

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

A snapping turtle with a bite that feels like "trapping your finger in a car door" has been found in a stream at a Welsh beauty spot.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

The situation resembles the parable of the scorpion and the turtle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The turtle agrees to carry the scorpion across the river after being reassured that he will not sting him, since doing so would doom them both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

She reaches for her necklace, rubbing the sea turtle pendant.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The decision to investigate these cells in mice grew out of earlier work by Mysore and other researchers studying birds, frogs, and turtles.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

"Maybe my son will not even see sea turtles in the future," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

He can’t pay for his locker at the gym, lives alone in a rented room with two pet turtles and a poster of Rocky Marciano on the wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Newman said the centre often sees species of turtles released, but snapping turtles were a worry when it came to other wildlife.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

“Are you discriminating against snakes and turtles? Do they not need loving, caring forever homes?”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

I skate low, torso over toes, head turtled forward.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

She spends most of her time turtled in bed.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2015

They turtled at first, then they quit, wallowing in self-pity and requiring emergency spine implants.

From Chicago Tribune ● May 8, 2012

Art was with the same Mr. Dunwoody whose car Pluto Noak’d turtled over last year.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

I yanked the cuffs of my sweatshirt down as far as they would go, picked up my board and turtled into the collar of my jacket as the lady hurried across the street.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

At the last second, both instead ducked for cover, turtling with their arms around their heads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

Far Tortuga is a treatise on turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see.

From Time Magazine Archive

The canoes engaged in turtling, besides going about in the day, are often sent out on calm moonlight nights.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

Last Friday a small turtling schooner arrived from the Windward Passages, reporting that they had seen a wreck ashore near Tête de Chien on the island of Tortuga, off the north-west coast of Saint Domingo.

From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Hodgson, Edward S.

I now went in search of the turtling party who had taken great pains but without success.

From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by Bligh, William