How to Use finned in a Sentence

finned

adjective

• Show your sensitive side and squee over some new fuzzy or finned friends.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2022
• Prepare to smile a lot, just as widely as those friendly finned fish.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• That something might be squid, shrimp, or many of the finned fishes, like cod, salmon, or seabass.
  — Ned Baldwin, Bon Appétit, 18 June 2021
• Indulge in a bit of kitsch with their oyster plate, where each indent takes the shape of a finned friend.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 9 June 2026
• On our drive, the coolers were twiddling their ceramic-finned thumbs.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 14 July 2022
• The resulting, finned fish were hybrids, and fertile ones, at that.
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2012
• The outside of the tower will be clad in a unique finned wall system that the developer says is a first for Dallas.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 13 Oct. 2020
• As a sign of the care given to the finned attractions, the trough was filled Wednesday morning with a special load of spring water.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2022
• Unlike other options on this list, the pool cleaner is driven by a finned disc, which gives it a better chance at climbing up and cleaning the walls.
  — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2023
• The hourlong episode depicts landscapes that are breathtaking; characters that are hairy, finned and feathered; struggles that are fierce.
  — John Anderson, wsj.com, 9 May 2023
• The finned behemoth began to thrash, but Kopanetskyi held firm, shushing it softly in Russian.
  — Kylie Williams, Miami Herald, 29 June 2025
• Both species are part of what scientists now believe were enormous, finned octopuses that used paddle-like appendages on their heads to move through ancient oceans.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• As for the finned 202 MM, one of those might command $1 million or more in concours condition.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2026
• The museum said the finned animal appears in fossil records before the existence of trees and sharks have survived five mass extinctions.
  — Cortney Moore, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Notably, there were concerns about the fragility of a finned tibial tray, one of the four pieces of the knee replacement that fits into the shin bone, according to the whistleblower lawsuit.
  — Fred Schulte, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
• The fossils belonged to a group of extinct finned octopuses known as Cirrata that researchers believed crushed their prey with powerful jaws.
  — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• This new species of finned octopus suggests a more complex picture — one where giant, intelligent invertebrates also held power at the top of the food chain.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• With the help of renowned zoologist Jonathan Baillie, Flach traversed the globe to find his furry, feathered, and finned subjects and record their modern challenges.
  — Saryn Chorney, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2023
• Lowe, who has been studying the behavior of juvenile great white sharks along the Southern California coast for 20 years, was not surprised by the appearance of a finned friend.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
• Other finned resident bigwigs include bluegills, crappies, largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, muskies, steelhead, lake trout and various sizes and colorations of stream trout, including brook, brown and rainbow.
  — Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• Eat a lot more of these While seafood experts often disagree about finned fish farming, many agree that vertical ocean farming is a great way to grow sustainable food that is not only nutritious but also cleans our ocean water at the same time.
  — Noah Galuten, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
• Pardo and Mann’s re-examination revealed that these were young megalichthyids, early finned tetrapodomorphs that predated emobolomeres by 20 to 30 million years.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026
• The sci-fi seafaring sequel returns Statham as a rescue diver who survived an encounter with a supposedly extinct megalodon in the first movie and now has to face a trio of finned foes, other sea monsters and environmental bad guys.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• Gorgo, who resembles Godzilla with larger claws and finned ears that are, frankly, kind of cute, is captured and sold to a London circus … only for his much, much larger mother to smash through Big Ben and rescue her baby.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• All finned and flippered residents at the New England Aquarium are monitored closely, and many receive maintenance such as regular toothbrushing, ear cleaning, and feather preening.
  — Brooke Holder, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
• Our suburban town of Kingston, across the Susquehanna River, had an optimistic, futuristic veneer with its new ranch and split-level houses and postwar adult toys like finned cars and color TVs.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• The team evaluated the size of the ancient octopuses using allometric calculation—a method that used the proportional growth rates of modern, long-bodied finned octopuses to extrapolate the size of their extinct relatives.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
• The researchers determined that the fossils, which came from Japan and Vancouver Island, off Canada’s Pacific Coast, represent two species in a group known as the finned octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and Nanaimoteuthis haggarti.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026