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.
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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.
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