How to Use free-swimming in a Sentence

free-swimming

adjective

• That way, when the tuna show up the hooked baits blend in with the free-swimming chum.
  — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
• Red light switches them back into a free-swimming state.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
• When conditions are right, the eggs hatch into a free-swimming larval form.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
• From that polyp colony, free-swimming medusae bud off and develop into mature adults within a matter of weeks.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The effect has been especially damaging on corals, oysters, and free-swimming snails and slugs.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026
• Most individuals in each group begin life as a free-swimming trochophore larva.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
• Warm-bodied fish at risk The scientists from Trinity and UP created a new framework to estimate the metabolic rate in free-swimming fish, according to the press release.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026