The fish swam gracefully through the water, its fins cutting through the waves.

Meaning: This sentence means that the fish was moving through the water in a smooth and elegant way, and its fins were helping it to move through the waves.

Choice of Words: Fish is a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water and has gills for breathing. Swam means to move through water by using fins or a tail. Gracefully means in a smooth and elegant manner. Water is a clear, colorless liquid that covers most of the earth's surface. Fins are the flat, wing-like structures on a fish's body that help it to swim. Cutting means to separate something into pieces with a sharp object. Waves are ridges of water that move across the surface of a body of water.

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