Sharks
[ʃɑːks] or [ʃɑrks]
Examples
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In no case has a battle taken place between two of these armed sharks except in the one instance reported of an Austrian sinking an Italian submarine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A little breeze came up and the brig drew away from the pirates, leaving the two proas to pick up those Malays from the water that the sharks had missed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We saw the usual sharks, blackfish, porpoises, &c. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mermaids and sharks! Jane Austen. Emma.
- But lawyers, sharks, and leeches, are not easily satisfied, you know! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checked by Llewellyn