How he out fins and flops about, and blows like a porpoise properly frightened, don't he?
In order to hold whatever position in the air may be desired, the blimp is equipped with two horizontal fins and three vertical fins.
These fins are made of wood and light steel tubing, reinforced with wire, covered with aeroplane linen rubber painted and finished with varnish.
There is no sign of life in the azure gulf above, nor in the abyss beneath--there are no wings or fins to be seen.
Then the still surface is suddenly broken by fins innumerable--black fins of sharks rushing to the hideous funeral: they know the Bell!
Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.
These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.
Any one who should destroy thousands of tons of these edible swimmers, simply for their heads and tails, or fins and scales, would be regarded as a dangerous person.
The dorsal fins are reddish; the first row of fins behind the gills and those on its belly are generally edged with white and black.
The ventral fins are slender, and terminate in a point.
The bones which support the ventral or belly fins are called the ossa pelvis.
The fins are all inclosed in skin, whilst their rays are unarmed.
At the breast are the sternum or breastbone, clavicles or collar-bones, and the scapulae or shoulder-blades, on which the pectoral or breast fins are placed.
The Bookworm tried the experiment, and Guy told him he should have known better; but he was carried away with excitement at seeing a real live sole flap its fins and gape.
He never seed the river on fire, but what we did see was waggon and waggon-loads of fish carted away with burnt fins and tails.
They have received their name from their resemblance to the pectoral fins of some fishes.
The animal makes use of the valves of his shell as natatory organs, working them like fins or paddles, and by this means proceeding at a rapid rate through the waters.
Observe the movements of the pair of fins nearest the gills, the movements of the mouth, and the currents of water entering the mouth and passing through the gill slits.
Show the suitability of the fins as organs of locomotion in water.
Movements of the fish and the part that the various fins play in these movements.
They are distinguished by the very long gar-like jaws; whether they possessed adipose fins or luminous spots cannot be determined.
The flying-fishes have both jaws short, and at least the pectoral finsmuch enlarged, so that the fish may sail in the air for a longer or shorter distance.
Protaulopsis bolcensis of the Eocene of Italy has the ventral fins farther back, and is probably more primitive than the sticklebacks.
The dorsal fins are distinct, the first composed of strong, pungent spines radiating from a short base and about six or seven in number.
In this species there is a short dorsal fin of about seventeen rays, no teeth, and the well-developed ventral fins are not far in front of the anal.
Perhaps, as supposed by Gill, they may prove to be degenerate berycoids in which the ventral fins have lost their normal connection.
The fins are very little developed, and some forms, as Gordiichthys irretitus of the Gulf of Mexico, the body as slender as a whiplash, possess a very great number of vertebræ.
The name Squamipinnes refers to the scaly fins, the typical species having the soft rays of dorsal, anal, and caudal, and sometimes of other fins densely covered with small scales.
The immensefins were bad enough, but when they started a perpendicular dodge they were positively beastly.
These were reaping a harvest of seal in the broken-up ice, and cruised among the floes with their immense black fins sticking up, and blowing with a terrific roar.
It is most difficult to place species with scientific accuracy which can only be observed swimming in the water, and of which more often than not only blows and the dorsal fins can be observed.
For those gay perch with their scarlet fins and golden bodies barred with olive green are not defenceless at all.
Eels are really very like water snakes, but they are fish, with fins just like the trout, and funny little snoutheads, that make us think of pike.
Though the largest species of the family, the wings were only 6 inches from the carpal joint to the tip, totally useless for flight, but employed as fins in swimming, especially under water.
There are no walking feet, but a pair of fins or paddles like those of Ichthyosaurus.
Possibly, also, the soft tissues of the animal were not dense, and it may have had swimming fins at the sides.
All of the fins are supported by a skeleton of rays, either horny or spinous in character.
They are usually one or more fins in the middle line of the back and one or two in a corresponding position beneath the tail (anal fins); while the tip of the tail is terminated by a caudal fin, the chief organ of swimming.
When the season of its migration arrives, the fins have become darker and the fish has assumed a silvery hue.
They lead a somewhat sedentary life at the bottom of the sea, moving sluggishly by undulations of the pectoral finswhich form a large part of the flat body.
There are always four paired fins and one or more on the back.
Another and smaller variety were of a brilliant light blue, with vivid scarlet-tipped fins and tail, a perfectly defined circle of the same colour round the eyes, and protruding teeth of a dull red.
This fine fish is a little like a big salmon, but with golden-yellow fins and tail.
Yes, really and truly, these little fish fly or sail through the air, for their fins balance them like a parachute.
They had worked night and day to construct the second, smaller ship--a little two-passenger job with sweptback fins and a canopy-covered cockpit in its sharp nose.
And before them was a tall, gleaming rocket ship, standing on its tail-fins in the middle of the street!
We could design it in any shape, though a sharp nose and thin guide-fins are still effective.
The vertical fins also have markings in the form of a network surrounding paler spots.
The sides and fins are mottled with a darker green or brownish-green, the blotches being gathered into irregular bunches.
In time his wings and feet became fins and the feather stumps became scales; in other words, the erstwhile boastful Koko became a fish.
Instead, moving against his will, he took two of the fins in his hands and pulled on them.
The glow of the metal brightened; the slow rotation of the fins and the weird music became hypnotic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
