great white shark
nounDefinition of great white shark
: a large mackerel shark (Carcharodon carcharias) of warm seas that is bluish when young but becomes whitish with age and has been known to attack humans
— called also white shark
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Believed to be the largest great white shark in the world, Deep Blue, measures almost 21 feet long and over 2 and a half tons. — Dan Snierson, EW.com, "Shark Week 2019 schedule: Your guide to all 18 specials," 10 July 2019 Earlier this week, a great white shark was spotted off the coast of the Jersey Shore. — Chris Hopkins | Chopkins@pennlive.com, nola.com, "See how close a shark got to unaware Myrtle Beach swimmers," 19 June 2019 Eventually, an eight-foot juvenile great white shark was pulled from the New Jersey waters. — Matt Mccall, National Geographic, "2 weeks, 4 deaths, and the start of America's fear of sharks," 12 June 2019 Remember last week when a great white shark leapt out of the water just a few inches away from a little boy in Cape Cod? — Kelly O'sullivan, Country Living, "Terrifying Drone Footage Shows a Shark Swimming Dangerously Close to Kids on the Beach," 31 July 2019 Officials in Cape Cod are working to find out the person behind the lifelike fake legs that keep popping up at a memorial for a bodyboarder who died there in September after being mauled by a great white shark. — Fox News, "Fake bloody legs appear at memorial for Cape Cod shark-attack victim," 22 July 2019 Go back to the summer of 1975, when a great white shark was scary enough on screen to keep people out of the water in real life. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "11 things to do in San Diego this weekend: Mojalet Dance Collective, Tanabata Festival, ‘Rock of Ages’," 5 July 2019 The region’s seal population – estimated in the hundreds of thousands – has been blamed for drawing droves of great white sharks in recent years. — USA TODAY, "Barbie, Tupac, scorpions and Red Vines: News from around our 50 states," 19 July 2019 The 11-foot, great white shark trailed behind them. — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Teen shark attack victim throws out first pitch at Padres game," 5 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'great white shark.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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