Use "tortoise" in a sentence

1. waters, who would not dream of lazing here awhile? Local wildlife includes hermit crabs, mangrove cuckoos, red-footed tortoise and tiny orange butterflies

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2. The tortoise behind me seems to be accustomed

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3. Perched on the tip of his nose was a pair of tortoise shell glasses with dark blue lenses

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4. just outside of Las Vegas that have been placed off limits in order to protect the desert tortoise

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5. I got in the shower, took a long shower, got out and toweled off, combed my hair with a tortoise shell comb there, kept the towel wrapped around me, and went back to the

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6. There are 400,000 acres just outside of Las Vegas that have been placed off limits in order to protect the desert tortoise

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7. 29 These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

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8. the tortoise after his kind,

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9. Because of their acceptance of gradualism, they chose the tortoise as their symbol

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10. Remember the tortoise who won the hare? If you constantly put effort without quitting, surely you will win

11. The ceiling was a masterpiece to put the rest of the artwork in the castle to shame: fashioned from jewels, diamonds, and bits of smooth glass was an expansive, inverted model of the open sea, replete with cruising fins and schools of fish, tropical islands and archipelagos, a tortoise with a scale forest on its back, and a replica of Coral Wing itself carved out of a sparkling prism, so faithfully rendered that Jai wondered whether there was an even tinier version of the fortress inside the first model

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12. The first of His incarnations was as the fish, Matsya, in water, then the amphibious tortoise, Koorma, followed by the pig, Varaaha, on the land

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13. The attendant was asleep, his chin tucked into his neck like a tortoise

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14. as is; potato and tortoise types

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15. and took a tortoise shell brush off the dresser and handed it to

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16. A Leader! What an idea! “Yes,” said the tortoise, “An idea of

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17. out,” said the tortoise

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18. “Can’t wait to try it out,” said the tortoise

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19. Oh, Hồ Gươm Lake, with its Ancient Tortoise,

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20. the Tortoise Tower that has been there forever

21. mystic dance around the Tortoise Temple,

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22. For several months he was seen wandering about with a toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendía’s days, and no one knew whether because of the involuntary exercise, the winter tedium or the imposed abstinence, but his belly was deflating little by little like a wineskin and his face of a beatific tortoise was becoming less bloodshot and his double chin less prominent until he became less pachydermic all over and was able to tie his own shoes again

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23. The two hundred forty pounds that he had attained during the days when he had been challenged by The Elephant had been reduced to one hundred fifty-six; the glowing and bloated tortoise face had turned into that of an iguana, and he was always on the verge of boredom and fatigue

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24. gradually because of Mr Marriott's tortoise pace - to the

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25. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare… slow and steady win the race!

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26. We call this feature the "Gas Pedal", and it is depicted by a tortoise and a

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27. The "Gas Pedal", is depicted by a tortoise and a hare, much like the old

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28. Confessions of a tortoise believer of necessary preservative free

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29. remained as a memorable kind of paradox regarding spaced timings is attributed to Zeno of Elea 450 BC, who had composed that famous tale about a race between Achilles and the Tortoise

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30. This fable is about a race between a fleeting Achilles and a slow moving Tortoise that could never be won by Achilles since the little advantage that was initially given out towards the Tortoise could never be written off

31. An old example had been made in the form of a story that has remained as a memorable kind of paradox regarding spaced timings is attributed to Zeno of Elea 450 BC, who had composed that famous tale about a race between Achilles and the Tortoise

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32. HARE AND THE TORTOISE, slow and steady is what wins the race, right?

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33. happen to you! Why are you like a tortoise that refused to say anything?

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34. In the US, the model of equal opportunity is the race between the tortoise and the hare

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35. He who can withdraw his senses from attraction of their objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within his shell - take it that such an one has attained Perfection

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36. Therese carefully took her tortoise into her hands and placed her against her chest

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37. ” She stroked the shell and then put the tortoise back on its log in the tank with the hot lamp shining

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38. After leaving Therese safely at her door, Than went to her room and, in invisible mode, conversed with the hamster and the tortoise

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39. Than turned to the tortoise, which now said, “She’s loving and tender

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40. Than softly thanked the animals, and listened as the tortoise said a bit more

41. “Good morning, sunshine,” she said in a friendly voice to her tortoise, who hadn’t yet opened her eyes

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42. shield rigidly in the tortoise formation

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43. The tortoise formation would have to be broken here

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44. Our consciousness has to protect itself from the external assaults in the same way as a tortoise does

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45. When the hounds find a creeping tortoise they try to make it their hunt

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46. But tortoise withdraws its vulnerable limbs inside its armor

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47. Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor

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48. In one place I saw a tortoise which was

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49. Are You The Tortoise Or The Hare?

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50. ing six months into their search that the tortoise had a suspiciously

51. what’s so great about the tortoise

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52. typically placed on a cartoon tortoise, I am here to tell you some-

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53. tortoise is all about efficiency

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54. • The tortoise knows that preparation is key

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55. • The tortoise is going to stop along the way and help someone by

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56. • The tortoise has been building solid relationships with recruiters

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57. • The tortoise prepares well for interviews and knows how and when

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58. You can be part tortoise and part hare

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59. A few weeks ago I asked the question: Are You The Tortoise Or The

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60. It was in the likeness of an abject and creeping tortoise

61. The Delawares are children of the tortoise, and they outstrip the deer

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62. His companions crowded about him in wonder and every eye was like his own, fastened intently on the figure of a small tortoise, beautifully tattooed on the breast of the prisoner, in a bright blue tint

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63. “It’s a hare and tortoise thing, my friend

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64. The guy drove on, slow and steady, but confident, as if he knew exactly where he was going, as if he had been there many times before, and he said, “The hare and the tortoise, my friend

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65. It was a small tortoise with Julia's initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card-table, now lumbering over a rug, now withdrawn at a touch, now stretching its neck and swaying its withered, antediluvian head, became a memorable part of the evening, one of those needle-hooks of experience which catch the attention when larger matters are at stake

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66. 'I wonder if it eats the same sort of things as an ordinary tortoise

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67. tortoise fitted into the shell?' 'What will you do when it's dead?' asked Mr Samgrass

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68. Julia and Rex played bezique; the tortoise, teased by the pekinese, withdrew into his shell; Lady Marchmain read The Diaiy of a Nobody aloud until, quite early, she said it was time for bed

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69. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the "Pioneer" being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr

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70. When the prosecution is through, Olson has been plodding along like the tortoise that always catches the hare—for six hours

71. (And why not white cats or tortoise shell?) I avoid cats myself because cats lick themselves and shed their fur; when I breathe cat hairs, the traces of saliva on the cat fur trigger an allergic reaction that results in the blood vessels in my nose dilating

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72. Theta was not easy to comprehend, but when you showed me the charts that used your tortoise as an analogy, I understood completely

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73. If you were able to use a tortoise to explain Theta, then I won’t question your use of a rabbit to explain Vega

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74. Sometimes I think my analogies are so crazy that my tortoise is the only one who will listen to them, but I really enjoy sharing them with you

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75. , here goes: My neighbor takes her morbidly obese rabbit out for walks, just like I do with my tortoise; he likes to eat the grass and weeds by the pool too

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76. But as big as he is, he moves much faster than my tortoise

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77. I can’t count the number of times we have had to form search parties to look for her rabbit when it wandered away, while my tortoise has only gotten away once

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78. Optionz Traderz: Well, it represents higher volatility than a tortoise

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79. The search area for the rabbit is about 25 times the size of the search area for the tortoise, representing the increased uncertainty of the location of a stock price with higher volatility

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80. The rabbit may cover a much larger area than the tortoise, but its distance from the starting point is equal to the radius of the circle

81. On average, the rabbit will be about five times further away than the tortoise

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82. Stock Trader: Oh, great, here we go with another tortoise story

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83. An at-the-money option on a rabbit stock has the same chances of expiring in-the-money as one on a tortoise stock; the odds are always 50-50

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84. Suddenly a bunch of things made sense: the margaritas, the pink Cadillac, the pet tortoise, the endless patience with other traders; it seemed obvious in hindsight

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85. It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market

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86. He waved his hand for silence, and went on, "Can you tell me why the tortoise lives more long than generations of men, why the elephant goes on and on till he have sees dynasties, and why the parrot never die only of bite of cat of dog or other complaint? Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are men and women who cannot die? We all know, because science has vouched for the fact, that there have been toads shut up in rocks for thousands of years, shut in one so small hole that only hold him since the youth of the world

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87. There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise

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88. By the time Achilles has covered the distance that separated him from the tortoise, the tortoise has covered one tenth of that distance ahead of him: when Achilles has covered

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89. that tenth, the tortoise has covered another one hundredth, and so on forever

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90. The absurd answer (that Achilles could never overtake the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was continuous

91. Then Clarence resembled a tortoise torn from its shell and panicked by life

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92. In still farther meadows the watermelons lay, unfingerprinted, striped like tortoise cats lying in the sun

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