The Indians in one night will commonly catch thirty sturgeons in a place where the river is not above three fathom broad.
When the Jamestown colony was starving they lived on the bounties of the Bay--they caught the sea-crabs and sturgeons and sheepshead; the latter they likened to the broth of their English mutton.
Now, sturgeons are the oldest of all fish, and these were the oldest of all sturgeons.
The sturgeons guarding the gates stirred the water with their tails.
Sadko walked between the sturgeons and through the gates of the palace.
In two dayes we arrived att the River of the sturgeon, so called because of the great quantity of sturgeons that we tooke there.
Heere we saw fishes of divers, some like the sturgeons & have a kind of slice att the end of their nose some 3 fingers broad in the end and 2 onely neere the nose, and some 8 thumbs long, all marbled of a blakish collor.
In that bay there is a chanell where we take great store of fishes, sturgeons of a vast biggnesse, and Pycks of seaven foot long.
Now he heard one of the sturgeons say to the other: "The man in the moon, whom we have often seen carrying fagots on his shoulders, has fallen into the sea.
At this spectacle Aegidius Aucupis remembered what the two sturgeons of the sea of Erin had foretold.
During one of these crossings, as he remained during the night on the bridge of the ship, he saw beneath the waters two sturgeons swimming side by side.
Undoubtedly it was one of these "sturgeons of a vast bignesse" that, according to the legend, swallowed both Hiawatha and his canoe.
The sturgeons and ganoids decreased throughout the Tertiary or Quaternary until at present we have but few living species.
The ganoids most nearly like our modern sturgeons increased during the last of the Devonian and retained their prominence to the close of the Carboniferous.
In many sharks and in sturgeons the spiracle forms a conspicuous opening just behind the eye.
In the sturgeons the numerous caeca form a compact gland.
At one point on the Volga, a hundred thousand people collect in spring for the fishery, and work by relays, day and night continuously, as long as the sturgeons are going up stream.
On some of the tributaries, when fishing is intermitted for a single day, the sturgeons have been known to completely fill a river 360 feet wide, so that the backs of the uppermost fish were pushed out of the water.
A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia.
To this order, as thus defined, about half of the extinct Ganoids belong, as well as the modern degenerate forms known as sturgeons and perhaps the paddle-fishes, which are apparently derived from fishes with rhombic enameled scales.
The sturgeons constitute the recent family of Acipenseridæ, characterized by the prolonged snout and toothless jaws and the presence of four barbels below the snout.
Other sturgeons are marine, ascending fresh waters only for a moderate distance in the spawning season.
The sturgeons have a rough skin besides five series of bony plates which change much with age and which in very old examples are sometimes lost or absorbed in the skin.
Various predatory fishes and sea-birds persecute the eulachon during its runs, and even the stomachs of the sturgeons are often found full of the little fishes, which they have taken in by their sucker-like mouths.
The sturgeons are the youngest of the Ganoids, not occurring before the Lower Eocene, one species, Acipenser toliapicus occurring in the London clay.
Sturgeons subsist principally on insects and marine plants, which they find at the bottom of the water, where they mostly resort.
One of the largest Sturgeons ever caught in our rivers was taken in the Esk a good many years ago: it weighed four hundred and sixty pounds.
Sturgeons occur in all the great lakes communicating with the St. Lawrence, and also along the whole Atlantic coast of the United States down to Florida.
The Sturgeons of North America are of little benefit to the natives.
Sturgeons resemble sharks in their general form, but their bodies are defended by bony shields, disposed in longitudinal rows; and their head is also well curiassed externally.
Brandt has written of the sturgeons of Russia, and Johann Marcusen, to whom we owe much of our knowledge, of the Mormyri of Africa.
A similar rule holds with regard to the sturgeons and some Amphibians.
In the lampreys, sharks, dipnoans, crossopterygians, and sturgeons the skeleton is still cartilaginous, but grows progressively more complex in their forms and relations.
In Rome, in the time of the emperors, we read of sturgeons borne in triumph to the sound of instruments, and laid upon tables fastidiously covered and decorated with flowers.
During the night the sturgeons enter the enclosure, agitating by their movements other cords arranged round the hurdles.
The fishermen are informed during the day of the approach of the sturgeons to the great enclosure by the movement they communicate to cords suspended to small floating substances in the water.
The sturgeons are sea-fishes which periodically ascend the larger rivers.
The sturgeons (Acipenser) are among the largest fishes known.
A third genus (Amia) is midway between the sturgeonsand the latter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sturgeons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
