How to Use megalodon in a Sentence

megalodon

noun

• Experts say the largest of the megalodons were up to 80 feet long.
  — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• With teeth up to seven inches long, scientists estimate that the largest megalodons reached up to 80 feet, and rarely lost a fight.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Maryland leaders are considering a bill that would make the extinct megalodon the official state shark.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Megalodons were the largest predatory sharks in Earth's history, and went extinct around 4 million years ago.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
• Leaving a lasting reputation While megalodons have long been extinct, their legacy still washes ashore, with hundreds of megalodon teeth being found each year.
  — Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Paleontologists believe that Maryland was once a whale and dolphin calving ground and nursery for hungry megalodons.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
• Smithsonian Ocean said megalodons were about 60 feet long and weighed up to 50 tons — significantly larger than today's great white sharks, which can grow up to 20 feet long.
  — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2026
• While the mighty megalodon is not swimming along the shores of the Bay State now, the enormous prehistoric shark relative once dominated the shallow seas that covered Maryland and the rest of the Atlantic coastal plain.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
• First stop is at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where a 52-foot megalodon is hanging.
  — Amy Delaura, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
• Mike Bowers and his son, Bo Bowers, uncovered the fossil, which came from an Otodus megalodon, in Sea Isle City near the Townsend Inlet on August 11.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026