Sentence examples for eel from inspiring English sources

Whether in an attempt to gussy it up or give it a local flavour (see also, the base), eggs Benedict does not need to be augmented with black pudding, smoked eel or chorizo.

We were the first divers to visit the East of Eden site, reopened after two years, and here I got up close, too close, to a giant moray eel I later discovered was almost certainly Scarface – a known resident of the table coral at 16m depth, and infamous for having bitten a diver's thumb off.

The local indigenous people are still there – we still have a jellied eel stand – but they're surrounded by shiny glass and steel.

After dining on pints of prawns and skate in the 50s-style cafe, all benches and Formica, raid the smokehouse for eel, sprats and cod roe.

When the eel locates its prey, it opens a series of cellular gates through which the ions flow.

IN DECEMBER 2007 a Japanese aquarium hooked up the lights on a Christmas tree to a tank containing an electric eel.

The English constitution is a vague formulation in someone's head, and that foundation of English liberties, Magna Carta, is best known for banning eel-traps in the Thames.

He sounds like a southern country lawyer, whose advice to legislators approached by lobbyists "with their eel-skin briefcases and alligator shoes" was: "It's OK to lie to lobbyists.

In 11 years of research he has collected anguilline myths, lore and recipes from all over the world, with particular emphasis on eel-worshipping in New Zealand and Polynesia.

One contemporary, having met him casually in London in 1914, remarked: "When you steal up and try to catch hold of him, off he goes like a sand-eel and begins twirling again a few yards further on".

Dr Cohen had been studying the way that neural activity in the spinal cord of the lamprey (an eel-shaped jawless fish) allowed it to move, with the sequential contraction of muscles propelling it forward in a wave motion.