Example sentences for: manatees

How can you use “manatees” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rare species of butterflies and delicate hummingbirds take to the air, and crocodiles and manatees still live in and around vast tracts of mangrove swamp in the south.

  • Its protected wildlife includes crocodiles, manatees, and numerous species of birds.

  • Coral reefs are being damaged by careless divers; lagoons that once teemed with tropical fish are now being polluted by suntan lotion; the beaches where sea turtles once laid their eggs are being taken over by sun-beds and volleyball nets; crocodiles and manatees that once cruised the coastal waters are now endangered species.

  • English speakers who used the charts read mar as mare `female horse,' which was later generalized to horse . Another possibility is that the origin was French golfe de la mer or latitude de la mer , French mer being quite close in sound to English mare , which was later generalized to horse . A third possibility is that the waters were populated by manatees, which might have been likened to horses, not too farfetched a suggestion when one considers that sailors are said to have imagined them to be mermaids.


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