Sentences with phrase «like eels»

Traps become scrap metal, Thwomps turned to gravel and even giant creatures like the eels die instantly.

He ducked into an archway leading to a tunnel, then paused as a tank rumbled overhead, covered in what looked like eels, with soldiers in close pursuit.

He danced around the king, then chopped off his left hand before slitting his belly with a sweeping cut and, because Osbert was a heavy man, his guts spilled out like eels slithering from a ruptured sack.

In so doing, they employ other words, like eels, which is short for illegals, and the Nine, which is this future's version of the Internet.

Hagfish are marine fish shaped like eels, famous for releasing large quantities of «slime» that unfolds, assembles and expands into the surrounding water in response to a threat or a predator's attack.

«Primitive mosasaurs were slender creatures that undulated their bodies like eels,» says Johan Lindgren of Lund University in Sweden.

Ahmed Musa has taken to Leicester like an eel to water.

When David Cameron described Ed Miliband as «wriggling like an eel» yesterday, he was following a long tradition of comparing politicians to a non-humanoid creature.

It had like eel or I had tuna or I had salmon and I had like avocado and like some carrot and some lettuce.

Not exact matches

«Orthacanthus was a three - metre - long xenacanth shark with a dorsal spine, an eel - like body, and tricusped teeth,» he said.

I've debated christians and if there's one thing they are really good at, it's twisting around like an oiled eel to counter any bit of scientific evidence that runs contrary to their beliefs.

But Josh got an eel roll and pestered me to at least try it — I did, and actually liked it.

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This all looks far too healthy — I eel like I need a bit of chocolate to offset this Brilliant recipe!

The stripped - down set menu, at # 39 ($ 60) for dinner, is like an ambitious Ph.D. student's acknowledgment to his beloved advisor: Smoked Eel & Horseradish, Blood Cake & Damson, Mutton & Turnip Broth, served in a gorgeously spare room.

Large Plates options include perfectly cooked Gulf Drum with Covey Rise Farms sweet potatoes and yams, sautéed kale and a moutarde beurre blanc — caviar like mustard seeds reduced with apple cider vinegar and white wine then mounted with soft butter; Chappapeela Farms Pork Osso Buco with charred corn, Papa Tom's cheese grits and local peppers; Sweet Corn & Kale Risotto with jumbo lump crab, smoked tomato vinaigrette and herb oil; and Cureton's tribute to his travels in China last year — Seared Yellowfin Tuna with Creole fried black rice, sweet potato habanero sauce and the Chef's signature Steel Sauce (half Steen's cane gastrique and half eel sauce).

Trendy herbs (wood sorrel, hedgerow garlic) spruced up the proteins (eel, steak) like high - tops to tweeds.

He's the best in baseball at making you whistle like an old - timey radio guy and say, «Boy, this fella is simply the eel's ankles, I'm telling you, just the leopard's stripes, he is.»

I like the Super-Soft Lounge Brahhh Rachel R. recently posted... Back from Vacation — Sharks, eels, and stingrays, oh my!

Often called living fossils, these eel - like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and flag - like fins along their back that are unique.

He imagines artificial eel organs tapping into the energy stored by natural charge separations throughout the body, like between the stomach — which is relatively positively charged — and surrounding tissue.

The first sets of teeth belonged to eel - like swimmers that lived some 525 million years ago and ranged from four to 40 centimeters long.

A new battery made of fleshy hydrogel layers generates and stores power like electric eels do.

What first struck Martinez about the mud eels was that, like flatfish, one side was coloured and the other was white.

Like a magnet, the eel has two ends, or poles.

New research reveals that swollen tissue on the back of the eel - like creatures (Petromyzon marinus, pictured), known as rope tissue, heats up when a male encounters a female.

Conodonts, tiny eel - like creatures that lived from 520 million to 205 million years ago and were our earliest vertebrate relatives, have long been one of paleontology's great enigmas.

Jawless vertebrates include the parasitic lamprey and scavenging hagfish: eel - like creatures that diverged from the ancestral line over 400 million years ago.

It might seem like a dramatic loss, but the apectoral eel isn't going it alone.

«Lamprey are eel - like parasites that use their tooth - like organs and raspy tongue to latch onto fish and suck out the blood, while hagfish scavenge by taking bites out of dead matter,» he says.

Fossilised soft tissue from an extinct group of eel - like creatures, called conodonts, has yielded support for the idea that vertebrates existed 40 million years earlier than previously believed.

One, Timonya annae (tih - MOAN - yuh ann - AYE), was a small, fully aquatic amphibian with fangs and gills, looking something like a cross between a modern Mexican salamander and an eel.

Early ichthyosaurs were eel - like creatures that stayed close to shore, but over the next 40 million years they evolved into streamlined, dolphin - shaped cruisers that raced through the open oceans, according to ichthyosaur expert Ryosuke Motani of the University of California, Davis (Nature, vol 382, p 347).

When a fish corpse reaches the bottom, every bit of flesh and bone is slowly scavenged by eel - like hagfish, starfish, and swarms of tiny crustaceans called amphipods.

They've learned how the super-strong and mega-long protein threads secreted by the eel - like animals are organized at the cellular level.

And indeed the 50 - centimeter - long, eel - like creatures can wreak havoc on freshwater communities when they invade from the sea.

Stripes of electric sensors run along their heads and eel - like fins, detecting pulses emitted by food and foes.

«You could compare it to doing experiments on butterflies and expecting them to behave like caterpillars,» says Caroline Durif, a scientist at Norway's Institute of Marine Research, who was not involved in the work but co-authored the 2013 study, which used adult eels captured as they started their return migration to the Sargasso Sea.

«It would be almost impossible to do a study like this on eel larvae,» he says, simply because tiny, transparent eels are tough to gather in large numbers in the open ocean.

Hagfishes are an ancient group of eel - like animals found at the bottom of the ocean.

To test their hypothesis, researchers placed eels in a round, freshwater tank with 12 small chambers arranged like spokes around it, and a magnetic coil surrounding the whole apparatus.

But Catania still wanted to know more — like, exactly how strong is an eel's shock to a human?

A small eel appears to have evolved the lopsided look of a flatfish — perhaps a sign that it has evolved a flatfish - like way of life.

The second carcass of the eel - like species was discovered on Friday on a beach in Oceanside, a city police dispatcher said.

Like a hunter bringing a dog to flush out rabbits, groupers entice moray eels to hunt with them (movie 1).

This eel - like creature fastens itself to fish and sucks their blood.

When she took on the eel assignment for us, she said it sounded like fun.

The eel - like body and scrawny «limbs» of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion.

The Snake Pit was named for the profusion of white, eel - like fish that live there.

«Orthacanthus was a three - metre - long xenacanth shark with a dorsal spine, an eel - like body, and tricusped teeth,» he said.