With its saw, which is sometimes six feet in length, the sawfish slashes or rips up its prey, and its assault is often fatal to large whales.
It was soon after this close shave with the sawfish that Little Sword came once more across the path of the Inkmaker.
And one day, as he was sleeping, or basking, some ten feet below the surface, the broad, dark form of a sawfish arose beneath him and thrust at him with his dreadful saw.
The pleasant idea of the sawfishwas to rip up the sleeper's silver belly.
Then the sawfish rolled over on its side, turning one edge of the saw toward the surface.
Since coming upon the ledge he had clutched and devoured two small basking sharks, from six to eight feet long, and a sawfish fully ten feet long, who had not been on their guard against the approach of such a peril.
For defence against any obtrusive shark or sawfish he carried a heavy, long-bladed, two-edged knife, by far the most effective weapon in deep water.
If you don't harpoon that sawfish and give me his saw, I won't speak to you for a week," said the excited girl.
Ned and Dick were in the skiff which had been towed by the power boat, hoping to harpoon a sawfish or a shark.
Tarpon, sharks, porpoises, lots of fish, birds and enough sawfish to make a picket fence of their saws all around the coast.
Sometimes the stream broadened, often it narrowed; once the sawfish dashed through an overgrown waterway where Dick and the captain crouched to the gunwale to avoid the arching branches that swept over and tore at the sides of the skiff.
A hundred yards farther up the narrow stream the great sawfish was found swimming slowly across a bank where the water was shoal, with his two fins and tail showing in line above the water.
Before they had passed out of sight of the girl, the sawfish turned around and for the first time headed for the skiff.
As the sawfish is a species of shark, Dick had no hesitancy about killing it, but wanted Molly to first see his captive and have a look at her saw, before it left the place where it grew.
The harpoon struck the fish in the middle of his wide back and as the freed pole splashed in the water the sawfish made a mighty swirl and was off at express speed.
One can easily picture to himself the slaughter when a sawfish dashes into a school of fishes, squids, or porpoises, and slashes right and left with his ripsaw of a beak.
These "denticles" in the skin become teeth in the mouth without change of structure, and the great spurs with which the "saw" of the sawfish is armed are only extreme instances of this special adaptation.
With it thesawfish cuts and slashes, tearing off pieces of flesh, or ripping open the abdomen of its opponent, then seizing the detached pieces.
In the mythology of science, the sawfish attacks the whale, but in fact the two animals never come within miles of each other, and the sawfish is an object of danger only to the tender fishes, the small fry of the sea.
These teeth are smaller and sharper than in thesawfish (Pristis), and the whole animal is much smaller than its analogue among the rays.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sawfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
