How to Use turtle in a Sentence

turtle

noun
  • Do not touch, feed or crowd the turtles.
    Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • At the end of each tour, guests even get to feed the turtles.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
  • One user likened it to a meal for a turtle.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Meatloaf is not the first turtle to call the pool home.
    Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • During one walk my wife saved a turtle.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Sea turtles are guided by the lights of the sun and moon.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
  • The turtles aren't the only ones at risk.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
  • The pattern and width of the crawl marks tells a lot about the turtle.
    Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
  • And style there will be, given that it's shaped like a tera-turtle.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t kiss or snuggle your turtle, and don’t eat or drink around it.
    Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Which turtle tank setup is best?
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The aquarium can now tend to up to four turtles at a time.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The sky would fill with vultures trying to eat the turtles.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Now, the amputee turtle has a safe home and plenty of new friends.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Make sure that there’s a good place to feed the turtles quality food.
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The growth pattern on each turtle’s shell depends on its species.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Boan points out turtles, frogs and small snakes slithering off to the side.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The turtles have a long tradition of toys, right?
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Check the rules, pack smart, empty your pockets, and leave the turtles at home.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Teenagers, mutants, ninjas, and turtles were cool once again.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Legend has it that he was inspired by the pattern of veins on a turtle.
    Joyce Kinkead, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2022
  • All of the turtles were pregnant females.
    Elizabeth Preston, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Never pick up a turtle by its tail, and keep your hands away from its mouth, as all turtles bite.
    Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
  • That harness helped weigh down the turtle’s back end in a way that didn’t cause damage to its shell.
    Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026
  • It was also seen trying to crawl across a bush using turtle-gait.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Of the 142 dead turtles, 105 were male.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
  • One of the games has players trying to knock down turtle carvings.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The turtle had fishing line wound around her right flipper and into her mouth.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The snakes, of course, along with the birds, bears, turtles, fish, rabbits, and horses.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
  • For the evening out, Holland donned a light gray suit and black turtle neck, matched with black boots.
    Alexia Fernández, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023

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