stingray
/ˈstɪŋreɪ/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈstɪŋreɪ/
stingray
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
stin - gray -> stingray
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘We see grey nurse sharks and stingrays and dolphins are a common sight in the bay.’
- ‘Too far from both Mahe and Praslin for land based operations to visit, they harbour an impressive diversity of marine life, including stingrays and reef sharks.’
- ‘There were plenty of turtles, huge infestations of purple spotted stingrays and some large manta rays.’
- ‘Experience in Queensland has shown that some turtles unfortunately also tend to take the bait, but dolphins and stingrays do not.’
- ‘People and uprooted trees were carried out to sea, while stingrays and sharks were left stranded in fields and parking lots.’
- ‘The hazards facing them include snakes, poisonous fish and fruit, reef sharks, moray eels, stingrays, fire coral, mosquitoes, bats, fire ants, rats and wild pigs.’
- ‘Where the boulders meet the sand there are many fish species, including stingrays, parrotfish and pufferfish.’
- ‘Here you can swim among stingrays and nurse sharks in shallow, 8-to-10-feet-deep waters.’
- ‘Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with stingrays, thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few.’
- ‘The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to stingrays, skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons.’
- ‘The most dangerous part of a stingray is the tail with the rather nasty serrated barb.’
- ‘At the bow end, there is a large garden-eel colony, and off the shallower stern you will find southern stingrays and spotted eagle rays.’
- ‘The scientist stresses that stingrays only use their venom-tipped tails in extreme circumstances, and even then as a defensive reflex rather than as an attack.’
- ‘‘We do find dead stingrays with their tails cut off from time to time, ’ he added.’
- ‘Resting on the sand are stingrays, electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark.’
- ‘Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, hawksbill turtles, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.’
- ‘I felt like Alice through the looking glass, enjoying the sublime sea's surreal realm, a marine dominion ruled by stingrays, dolphins, Napoleons
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