dolphin

Definition:
1. Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii).
2. Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises.

Use 'dolphin' in a sentence:

• 1. It's a dolphin.
• 2. Understanding dolphin conversation is not easy for humans.
• 3. I'm a dolphin.
• 4. Dolphins have sometimes been known to save drowning swimmers.
• 5. What a smart dolphin!
• 6. Like humans, every dolphin has its own "name".
• 7. Once the dolphin figured out the result of pressing this new paddle, it did choose it frequently when the trial was difficult.
• 8. Dolphins are smarter animals in the sea.
• 9. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.
• 10. These sounds, it has been found, are produced in the air-filled nasal sacs of the dolphin.
• 11. "Surely, there are," answered the Dolphin.
• 12. Dolphins and humans are similar in another way: both species make plans for getting things they want.
• 13. It began with a study one of them did on a dolphin, who had been trained to recognize a particular high-pitched tone.
• 14. "Even two words, if you want," answered the fish, who happened to be a very polite Dolphin.
• 15. My mum is a dolphin.
• 16. I want the dolphin!
• 17. These patterns were analogous to the tones used in the dolphin study.
• 18. One animal known to be a friend of humans is the dolphin.
• 19. My favorite animal is the dolphin.
• 20. The dolphin helps you do that.
• 21. But, as the human study suggest, another reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for predators while asleep.
• 22. Then they watched a dolphin show.
• 23. No one "speaks dolphin" yet, but some scientists are trying to learn.
• 24. Dolphins are also social animals.
• 25. In the seas of southern Brazil, for example, dolphins use an intelligent plan to get food.
• 26. People travel to watch monkey shows, hug baby tigers and swim with dolphins.
• 27. Why do dolphins help the men?
• 28. She is a Chinese dolphin.
• 29. A previous study noted that dolphins always consciously control their breathing.
• 30. During deep sleep, the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins.
• 31. If the wrong paddle was pressed, the dolphin had to wait several seconds before it could try again.
• 32. Is that a dolphin in the water?
• 33. But scientists say dolphins and humans are very similar in some ways. How?
• 34. Dolphins use their brains quite differently from the way humans do.
• 35. "In the storm of last night," answered the Dolphin, "the little boat must have been swamped."
• 36. He was so happy communing with the dolphin in Dingle Bay.
• 37. I like to watch dolphin shows.
• 38. Listen to the anguished squeal of a dolphin separated from its pod or witness the sight of elephants mourning their dead.
• 39. Dolphins are graceful and efficiently swimmers.
• 40. But unlike in the dolphin experiment, the monkeys had to complete four trials before they got any feedback.
• 41. The story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
• 42. The closer it came in pitch to the first one, the hard it became for the dolphin to correctly identify it as low.
• 43. A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die.
• 44. The dolphin has evolved a highly developed jaw.
• 45. The whale, like the dolphin, has become a symbol of the marvels of creation.
• 46. This special fatty tissue, the only other place is found in the dolphin, is in the lower jaw.
• 47. Marine biologists are calling for Cardigan Bay to be created a marine nature reserve to protect the dolphins.
• 48. For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.
• 49. Dolphins sometimes play in the wake of the boats.
• 50. Many dolphins die each year from entanglement in fishing nets.
• 51. They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
• 52. Whales and dolphins are still being slaughtered for commercial gain.
• 53. Why do you want to be a dolphin trainer?
• 54. A dolphin leapt out of the water.
• 55. The dolphin is an intelligent animal.
• 56. The adult Chinese white dolphin is pink.