"shark" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of large predatory fish, e.g. "The baby shark swam around the coral reef."
In early January, at the height of the summer holiday season, more than 4,000 protesters swamped Cottesloe Beach in Perth, with signs reading "Save Our Sharks", "Science Not Slaughter" and "Cullin Barnett".Of Australia's 180 or so shark species, only a few are dangerous to humans: chiefly, bull sharks, tiger sharks and great whites, which are protected under federal law.
Hunt has also exempted Western Australia from federal conservation laws in order to allow the state to cull the protected great white shark and has requested that Unesco remove 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest from its world heritage list to allow logging, even though the state's forestry industry is against the move.
No Parsi would want the mystic eye of the vulture to be replaced by the rapacious one of the land shark.
As the dinosaur that leaps out of the water and devours a shark in the Jurassic World trailer, it's become notorious as the most polarising creature in the film.
Everything here is about details: antique typewriters, gramophones, radios, television sets, model cars and even a shark gnawing on a disco ball.
(Free) Will Sharknado 2 jump the, er, shark?
Successful sports people are like this: preternaturally tough, stitched together out of shark hide and flameproof nylon weave.
Finger-biting babies, deer-chasing dogs and cats in shark outfits seem to be our new cultural icons.
Back in 2011, an image of a great white shark leaping out of the water to attack a man on a helicopter did the rounds, ostensibly because it had just been named as National Geographic's photo of the year.
