planktonin a sentence
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Plankton are important in marine food chains.
plankton = tiny or microscopic plants and animals that float in water
- Scientists are wondering if they can get plankton to pull more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
- ...and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish. (source)
- In water that was dense, glassy and flecked by millions of lit-up specks of plankton, fish like trucks and buses and cars and bicycles and pedestrians were madly racing about, no doubt honking and hollering at each other.† (source)
- We need to reach the young, and the plankton pitching is when your watchers will be young and vast.† (source)
- A report came up from the palmaries: At the desert edge of the plantings, the sand plankton is being poisoned through interaction with the new forms of life.† (source)
- I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were ever on the verge of death— plankton, maybe.† (source)
- He might as well have been looking for a specific piece of plankton in the ocean.† (source)
- It galloped with jaws wide open, as if to collect us between its teeth the way a whale feeds on plankton.† (source)
- "Plankton?" said Daphne.† (source)
- Max heard the low rumble of diesel engines; snowflakes drifted like luminescent plankton across the white shine of headlights.† (source)
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- The fish were attracted to plankton, and the plankton were attracted to the light.† (source)
- She almost said "plankton" and was happy to have caught the slur before uttering it.† (source)
- "Mae, I know you're doing that big plankton meeting in a couple days.† (source)
- He sailed over great patches of kelp and spellbinding acres of phosphorescent plankton.† (source)
- Hope he has enough plankton.† (source)
- Now they had the circular relationship: little maker to pre-spice mass; little maker to shai-hulud; shai-hulud to scatter the spice upon which fed microscopic creatures called sand plankton; the sand plankton, food for shai-hulud, growing, burrowing, becoming little makers.† (source)
- Because, his brother Ahmad said, on moon-filled nights the plankton would be visible everywhere, spread out all over the sea, and the sardines could see and eat the glowing organisms with ease.† (source)
- "I guess you'll see more new stuff tomorrow," Francis said, and Mae remembered the meeting with the plankton pitchers.† (source)
- It's plankton-inspection time."† (source)
- They only eat plankton.† (source)
- My little stove ran out after the first week, so I made do with biscuits, mint cake, and plankton until I fetched up on an island," said the cook.† (source)
- As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now.† (source)
- The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines . going straight down into the water that was a mile deep The tuna, the fishermen called all the fish of that species tuna and only " distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them or to trade them for baits, were down again.† (source)
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