6 sentences with 'fins'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fins and other words derived from it.
• « The other bits - tails, fins and all - were fried with potato chunks, heavily salted, and wrapped in the now cheap newspaper. The result was the world's first greasy, cheap and wildly popular fast food, fish and chips. »
• « The dolphins were moving alongside us like living yachts, their dorsal fins effortlessly slicing through the warm waters. »
• « They began to dive and stir with their fins the black silt, which rose behind them like the smoke of an oil fire and cancelled out the visibility of the water. But they were oblivious to this; they moved on, concentrating on the passage ahead. »
• « The bodies of some aquatic animals have adaptations for locomotion (hydrodynamic body shape, fins, tails, etc.) and gills for respiration. »
• « Aquatic animals show adaptation to the environment in their bodies, such as the fins of fish or the membranes between the toes of frogs (interdigital), which allow them to move easily in the water. »
• « In evolution, animals came out of the water and had to defend themselves from temperature variations and water loss by covering their bodies with feathers or hairs; by transforming their fins into legs to walk or jump, or by converting their gill breathing into tracheal breathing, like invertebrates, or pulmonary breathing, like vertebrates. »