man-of-war

How To Use man-of-war In A Sentence

• The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
• The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
• William Dampier observes that he remarked that the man-of-war birds and the boobies always left sentinels near their young ones, especially while the old birds were gone to sea on their fishing-expeditions, and that there were a great number of sick or crippled man-of-war birds which appeared to be no longer in a state to go out for provisions.
• The United States should act alone, he declared, rather than ‘come in as a cockboat in the wake of the British man-of-war.’
• After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
• This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• I wondered just how many stings I could take, as I anxiously scanned the surface for the float sac of a Portuguese man-of-war.
• Like the Portuguese man-of-war (see picture), the new creature is actually a colonial organism, made up of many animals.
• The Portuguese man-of-war is a large poisonous jellyfish-like creature found in the UK.
• It was computed by an experienced arithmetician, that there was as much twopenny ale consumed on the discussion as would have floated a first-rate man-of-war. The Heart of Mid-Lothian