How to Use green turtle in a Sentence

green turtle

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• The green turtle starts is life cycle as an egg on the beach.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 11 June 2020
• The study came on the back of finding dead green turtles on the beaches in Cyprus.
  — Fox News, 10 Aug. 2019
• But one Gage & Tollner dish that will not be offered is green turtle soup.
  — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
• Leatherbacks and loggerheads held their own, and green turtles are almost at record-high levels.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Loggerheads have laid only eight new nests at the refuge since the storm, while green turtles have laid 466.
  — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Anyone serving green turtle soup today would be committing a felony.
  — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• For the final experiment, the researchers dug up more green turtle eggs from a beach in Malaysia.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2016
• Denisse Holzhauer created an image of what appeared to be a green turtle on the youngster’s face.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• Hawksbill and green turtles tend to nest at higher elevations closer to dunes and steep cliffs, the researchers said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Hawaii’s green turtles, long in trouble, are rebounding far faster than anyone expected.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
• The return of loggerheads is impressive, but the green turtle revival is even more mind-blowing.
  — Gabe Andrews, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2022
• The giant green turtle has a zippered opening, and is filled with 60 colorful plastic balls.
  — Anna Lane, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2019
• Endangered loggerhead, hawksbill, and green turtles still make their home in the national park.
  — Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The bay and its once verdant seagrass meadows were ideal territory for the plant-eating green turtles.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
• The researchers started with clutches of green turtle eggs collected in Queensland.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2016
• This instantly recognizable smiling green turtle sandbox is a fast friend to the youngest customers.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2022
• Every year, about this time, green turtles begin arriving on beaches all across the Persian Gulf.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2018
• On a Texas beach, a dead green turtle was found with a disposable cup stuck to a flipper, preventing it from swimming properly.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Steeped in local lore and alternatively known as the Carib Ghost, this wreck site is home to stingrays, green turtles, and lobsters.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 2 Feb. 2026
• The team received tracking data for five other decoys, three of which had been hidden in olive ridley nests and two of which had been concealed in green turtle nests.
  — Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020
• That day, Bakari ran around the public fountain’s sculptures — a light blue whale and a yellow-and-green turtle — as a faux palm tree sprinkled water over his head.
  — Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2021
• Visitors to the Clearwater aquarium watched the light green turtle with a healing shell swim happily with its peers.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
• Loggerhead turtles respond to heavier rainfall with smaller shells but greater weight, while green turtle hatchlings grow smaller shells without a change in body size.
  — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
• Use an underwater camera to capture images of intricate corals and vibrant marine life— from swirling schools of jacks to swimming green turtles.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Ten of the 12 are green turtles, along with one loggerhead and one endangered Kemp’s Ridley turtle.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• The greatest boost was among green turtles in the southwest Indian Ocean, where numbers have increased an average of 18% per year.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 20 Sep. 2017
• Island is one of the world’s most important conservation spots for green turtles, or Chelonia mydas, with thousands arriving each year to lay their eggs.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, climate change, as well as unsustainable coastal and marine development, has affected and, at times, destroyed green turtle habitats.
  — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
• When Ubieta brought the green turtle to a local rescue center, veterinarians realized the creature had some pressing health problems.
  — Fox News, 28 Jan. 2020
• The study completed Wednesday examined where green turtles live and feed in Keys waters and evaluated green turtles’ general health.
  — USA TODAY, 14 June 2019