CORAL in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for CORAL, such as:
1. True coral needs no painter's brush.
2. Beyond the coral reef the open sea is dark blue.
3. It is reported that the coral reefs are being destroyed.
4. The Keys are coral islands off the southern tip of Florida.
5. Oil spills are having a devastating effect on coral reefs in the ocean.
2. Beyond the coral reef the open sea is dark blue.
3. It is reported that the coral reefs are being destroyed.
4. The Keys are coral islands off the southern tip of Florida.
5. Oil spills are having a devastating effect on coral reefs in the ocean.
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Meanings and Examples of CORAL
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coral
n. marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs
a. of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color
Classic Sentence:
1 On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.
2 Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.
3 Under his coat he wore a knitted grey vest, and, instead of a collar, a silk scarf of a dark bronze-green, carefully crossed and held together by a red coral pin.
4 He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin.
5 She wore her hair on the top of her head, built up in a black tower, with red coral combs.
6 Just at this moment, Eva came innocently into the room, with the identical coral necklace on her neck.
7 Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercedes boasted the same bright flashing eyes of jet, and ripe, round, coral lips.
8 So saying, Haidee arose, and wrapping herself in her burnoose of white cashmire embroidered with pearls and coral, she hastily quitted the box at the moment when the curtain was rising upon the fourth act.
9 I wish I hadn't smashed my coral bracelet, for you might have had it, said Jo, who loved to give and lend, but whose possessions were usually too dilapidated to be of much use.
10 While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
11 Those lips were magnificent; they might be said to be of coral.
12 On the fourth day of the sail, a large canoe was descried, which seemed to have touched at a low isle of corals.
Example Sentence:
1 True coral needs no painter's brush.
2 Oil spills are having a devastating effect on coral reefs in the ocean.
3 These snails do not occur on low-lying coral islands or atolls.
4 The Keys are coral islands off the southern tip of Florida.
5 It is reported that the coral reefs are being destroyed.
6 Beyond the coral reef the open sea is dark blue.
7 Although their main prey is the soft tissue of red corals, they eat other types of corals as well.