Sentence examples for through its gills from inspiring English sources

But after Charles had Boga-Gripped the fish and stuck his hand up through its gills to remove the fly, it began to gush blood.

The sous chef, if you will, lifted a wooden club and delivered a crushing blow to the head that clearly came nowhere near killing the creature, since it continued to writhe as the knife was plunged through its gills and then along its spine, not through the gut, the only way I've ever known to clean a fish.

At some point Lee threads a rope through its gills, and for just a second I get a good look at an enormous, prehistoric face.

What's more, each oyster is a natural water-filtration system, pumping between 20 and 50 gallons of seawater through its gills each day and extracting algae and phytoplankton for its food.

He added that the fish was kept alive by pumping oxygenated pond water through its gills.

A fish through its gills.

The American paddlefish (Polyodon) feeds by straining plankton (mostly tiny, drifting aquatic organisms) through its gill system and has been described as a living plankton net.

While searching for food, the epaulette shark sometimes turns over debris with its snout or thrusts its head into the sand, swallowing food items while expelling the sand grains through its gill slits.

"We've got one nurse who bubbles anaesthetic gas through a tube that goes in through its mouth and over its gills, and then we have a second nurse to monitor with a probe to check the heart rate," Miss Bethell said.

Although it lives on land, it sticks to the splash zones along the shoreline because it has to stay moist enough to breathe through its skin and gills.

As a fish attempts to swim through a gill net, its head penetrates the mesh, and a section of twine slips under its gill cover, entangling it.