turtle

[ UK /tˈɜːtə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝtəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
  2. any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
VERB
  1. hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation
  2. overturn accidentally
    Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!
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How To Use turtle In A Sentence

  • The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
  • Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
  • A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.
  • San Francisco's Magierek likes to wear short unitards, turtlenecks, stripes, and prints.
  • He loves me and appreciates my finer points - especially the fact that I don't make him dress like me in a black turtleneck and coordinating cable-knit sweater for a holiday portrait.
  • Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles. Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
  • While we are at it we should skip most of the stuff comingout of Turtle Bay — actually maybe we ought to just skip Turtle Bay altogether. The Volokh Conspiracy » United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child:
  • He tugged at the neck of his turtleneck sweater feeling like it was a noose tightening with each attack.
  • Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
  • Turtles were considered to be living anapsids although there was a significant temporal gap between the last anapsid reptile fossil and the first turtle fossil. Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb
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