Sentence examples for startling fish from inspiring English sources

Aquatic tentacled snakes (Erpeton tentaculatus) can take advantage of their prey's escape response by startling fish with their body before striking.

The largest female snake (77 cm total length) seemed to exhibit an exaggerated body feint when startling fish (Movie S3, clips 19 20).

When fish are oriented parallel to the long axis of the head, the body feint provides an obvious advantage by most often startling fish in the wrong direction (from the fish perspective) - toward the snake's approaching jaws (Figure 2A).

The fly needs to land as gently as possible upon the water to avoid startling the fish.

He hurled the spear down the hole, as Ahab might, startling the fish with a tremendous splash.

Indeed, the enveloping power of the past is captured in a startling image of fish washing up on a beach: "Out from the darkness of the sea, wave after wave of small, luminous bodies washed to shore".

By night there's a casino and 70s disco, while flesh-flaunting day trips include a nippy stroll on Bodmin Moor and a fish-startling visit to Blue Reef Aquarium.

Sifting through ship records, some dating as far back as the sixteenth century, he found evidence of startling abundance among whales, seabirds, and fish.

This scene, which may have had special appeal to Mr. Burton (whose oeuvre includes the fantastical "Big Fish"), is charming and a bit startling, and it provides a key to Uncle Boonmee's cosmos.

At the same time, the menu is dead serious, a purist's paradise of multiple choices among fish species -- nearly 30, a startling number for a small restaurant -- and elegantly presented appetizers and side dishes.

When we did find the reef we were treated to a colorful variety of fish and coral, though the most startling sight was the resort itself as glimpsed from the water, more colorful than any reef I've ever encountered.