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Example sentences for "cuttlefish"

Lexicographically close words:
cuttie; cuttin; cutting; cuttings; cuttit; cuttles; cutty; cutwater; cutworms; cuya
  1. This group includes the cuttlefishes or sepias, from which are obtained sepia ink and the cuttlefish bone used to feed canary birds.

  2. The ink is a secretion which the cuttlefish discharges when attacked to create a cloud in the water and thus escape unperceived.

  3. There are seventy sorts of cuttlefish and octopuses in Japanese waters.

  4. Over the doorway itself is an arrangement of straw, an orange, a lobster, dried cuttlefish and more gohei.

  5. A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species.

  6. A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

  7. He brought up the cuttlefish from the boat and unbundled it.

  8. We leave the cuttlefish behind; but before us the greater part of the road is covered with matting, upon which indigo is drying in the sun.

  9. I could never have believed that so many cuttlefish existed in these waters.

  10. Millions of cuttlefish drying in the sun!

  11. French fishermen give them the name "cuckoldfish," and they belong to the class Cephalopoda, family Dibranchiata, consisting of themselves together with cuttlefish and argonauts.

  12. Your quill pen will be whalebone, your ink a juice secreted by cuttlefish or squid.

  13. Anchovy or cuttlefish is the bait used; sometimes the two are placed on one hook.

  14. They are used for taking a species of cuttlefish which supplies a bait, and is caught by hook and line, the fishes being attracted by colored threads, at which they rush, when the hook will catch in their tentacles.

  15. The star-fish was duly dried and admired, and talked about by his regular customers; and this seemed so satisfactory that it was soon supplemented by a cuttlefish bone.

  16. The cuttlefish appears upon ancient Greek coins of Coressus, in allusion to the worship of Neptune, a deity much venerated as the protector of this island.

  17. The giants and ogres of romance were never so fearfully armed or clothed by the wildest fiction with so terrible an aspect as the cephalopods, the race to which the cuttlefish or octopus belongs.

  18. The cuttlefish had changed from its natural color to the exact hue of the sandy bottom on which it was crawling, and it was advancing so slowly that its progress could hardly be seen.

  19. He was surprised that the cuttlefish could move so fast, and his repugnance gave way to excitement as he started running after the writhing eight-armed creature.

  20. As soon as they reached the boat and the boy stood still a moment, the cuttlefish let go, and fell to the bottom of the boat.

  21. Take fine powder of pumice stone, four drams; fine powder of cuttlefish bone, four drams; add one scruple of subcarbonate of soda.

  22. Look at this cuttlefish before he squirts.

  23. She leaned a bit heavily on the arm she took as they left the cuttlefish to his ill-conditioned solitude.

  24. A tale of the loves of the Heron, who tried in vain to swallow the Cuttlefish bone, which broke into three pieces when he dropped it, was irresistibly ludicrous.

  25. Bargeton, to whom he was paying his court, as a cuttlefish bone, a burlesque absurdity which amused readers who knew neither of the personages.

  26. The Baron is paying court to your lady love, a cuttlefish bone that she is.

  27. The Baron du Chatelet and his cuttlefish bone will not last for a week, and the writer of Le Solitaire is worn out.

  28. Nina was out in a little boat alone, and the waves dashed the tiny craft nearer and nearer to the cave where the cuttlefish were waiting; finally she came so close that one tentacle seized her.

  29. The duke and his mother appeared to her as cuttlefish in a cave under perpendicular cliffs that ran into the sea.

  30. Marchesa Valdeste, "that cuttlefish of a Scorpa has thrown his tentacles out too far, and the goldfish is scurrying away in alarm.

  31. Their details were hazy, because of the cuttlefish inhabitants who swam thickly in front of them.

  32. Monstrously large as the place was, the floor soon was filled with the thick flood of cuttlefish which swarmed in from many doors.

  33. Their weighted feet left the cavern floor at once, and, locked tightly together, the whole fourteen of them shot like a bullet to the living ceiling of unsuspecting cuttlefish above.

  34. The intelligence of the cuttlefish astounded him.

  35. The two huge eyes of the cuttlefish surveyed his death throes minutely; watched his agonized struggles gradually weaken; watched his legs and arms relax, his head sink lower.

  36. At last the cuttlefish came forward and said: "I think the TAI (the red bream) must be the thief who has stolen the hook!

  37. Without waiting for the King's order the cuttlefish had already started for the TAI'S dwelling, and he now returned, bringing the TAI with him.

  38. The cuttlefish now came forward, and said to the King: "What I said was right.

  39. The chroniclers of the Middle Ages had also spoken of the gigantic cuttlefish that on more than one occasion had, with its serpentine arms, snatched men from the decks of the ships.

  40. The tank of cuttlefish was to her like a cage of tropical birds, full of colors and cries that enlivened the solitude of a melancholy matron.

  41. The great cuttlefish living in the tremendous depths do not deign to come to the surface in order to become acquainted with mankind.

  42. In one of his intelligent excursions across oceanic solitudes he fished up an arm of a cuttlefish eight yards long.

  43. The cuttlefish and ink fish, upon perceiving that they are pursued, enwrap themselves in a cloud of invisibility, just as did the enchanters of old in the books of chivalry, darkening the water with the ink stored in their glands.

  44. So they again started, this time almost at a right angle to their former course, the little girl inquired: "How can the cuttlefish color the water so very black?

  45. But I must warn you that these cuttlefish are the servants of the terrible sea devils, and from the way they are acting they seem determined to drive us toward the Devil Caves, which I wished to avoid.

  46. Whenever they choose, the cuttlefish are able to press out this ink, and it colors the water for a great space around them.

  47. On the north-eastern coast of Saigo it is no uncommon thing for one fisherman to capture upwards of two thousand cuttlefish in a single night.

  48. Hundreds of tons of cuttlefish are caught, cured, and prepared for exportation month after month; and many hundreds of acres are fertilised with the entrails and other refuse.

  49. They were loading their boats with 'dried fish,' doubtless the same dried cuttlefish which their descendants still carry to Izumo and to Hoki.

  50. Because there were no cuttlefish at Hishi-ura, and no horrid smells, I enjoyed myself there more than I did anywhere else in Oki.

  51. Tons and tons of cuttlefish entrails are used upon the fields beyond the Yabigawa, and the never- sleeping sea wind blows the stench into every dwelling.

  52. Enormous quantities of cuttlefish are shipped to the mainland; but I have been told that the Chinese are the best customers of Oki for this product.

  53. In one of the tea-houses a thriving trade is carried on in the sale of wooden tablets, some six inches square, adorned with the picture of a pink cuttlefish on a bright blue ground.

  54. But it's no use his trying to persuade his master that the little cuttlefish are spiders, for they are not the least like them.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuttlefish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.