Sentence examples for shapes of fish from inspiring English sources

The dark shapes of fish—I took them to be pike were coasting lazily about.

The dark shapes of fish — I took them to be pike — were coasting lazily about.

Such similarities of form between only distantly related organisms is termed "convergent evolution" and there are numerous examples of this in the fossil record and alive today (think of the hydrodynamic shapes of fish, dolphins and penguins).

So there are several styles of painting in Hooked, from screen prints to conceptual works and "Pollock-esque splatter works" formed in the shapes of fish.

Body shapes of fish were influenced by both centroid size (F18, 150 = 6.5, p<0.001) and interactions between genotype and temperature (F90, 770 = 6.5, p<0.001).

Consequently, there is an enormous variety in the materials, colors, and shapes of fishing lures, each suited for a particular scenario, or fish.

Each one has a different style of door knocker, in the shape of fish and animals, cast in copper or a kind of gunmetal.

Cod, scallops, trout and even porpoise show up in the cuisine; Robert May's cookbook includes designs for fish pies in the shape of fish, some decorated with colored sugar to look like stained-glass windows.

In the Sumerian period, according to legend, messengers of the gods in the shape of fish would spend their nights below the oceans, and in the days would teach humans the moral code and the arts.

Wearing a blue turtleneck, plaid skirt and dangling white earrings in the shape of fish, she did not look the part of an inmate who spent the last five years enduring harsh conditions in maximum security prisons.

He was yearning for the scene beyond the plate glass: brandy sours, clanking ice-cubes in the shape of fish, clicking high heels on terracotta tiles, wrought iron scrollwork, hotel linen, soft pillow.