Any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

Usage examples of shark.

Remember, even with the postal attacks last fall, the odds of any one person contracting anthrax are much less than those of getting struck by lightning or attacked by a shark.

Its wonderful drug Maxatil had helped countless women through the nightmare of menopause, but now it was under attack by the same sharks that had bankrupted A.

It was a coil of hempen twine, two cords, really, at the end of which was tied a barbless, heavy fishhook, the kind seafishers used to take shark and the great sea-salmon.

It was a coil of hempen twine, two cords, really, at the end of which was tied a barbless, heavy fishhookthe kind sea-fishers used to take shark and the great sea-salmon.

It was Gibbs who had masterminded the sale of the Shark, a World War II, Gato- class submarine, to the Chilean government, and arranged its modifications to look like the Barracuda, before sinking it in fifteen hundred fathoms of water.

Shasa had been trolling a 159 live bonito along the oceanic drop-off under the shadow of Le Morne Brabant on the island of Mauritius when he had hooked into a gigantic mako shark.

V-shaped cuts also revealed evenly spaced, parallel longitudinal striations, that, too, would have to be taken as evidence that shark teeth made the cuts.

Lo Manto had known him since he was a boy, and even back then his store had been nothing more than a poorly disguised front for the neighborhood gamblers and loan sharks to use as a base.

We were sharks pursuing each other, mouthing any parts we could catch.

The scene suggested wholesale horror and confusion, men diving from the decks and trying to outswim burning oil or the suction of a great ship going under and overcrowded lifeboats circled by sharks.

But when Kara Antreen was pulled past on a floating stretcher the photogram recorders all swung to follow the procession, and the mediacrowd swam off after them like sharks after chum.

It pinged out again with the shark tooth wave pattern and went silent, hearing the return waveform and perceiving the target in three dimensions.

Chase did look down, and he saw, rising like a missile through the gloom, the yawning mouth and the prolapsed jaw of the great white shark.

Harding advanced towards the enormous causeway whose prolongation enclosed the narrow Shark Gulf.

Ford wondered if he could draw Novak out by telling him about the Shark and the possibility of vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus at the Willowbrook.