sea monster
noun
plural sea monsters
: a mythical creature of usually immense size that lives underwater and is traditionally regarded as a threat to ships and mariners
All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.—
Seamus Heaney
Seamus HeaneyExamples of sea monster in a Sentence
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The ship, named the Charybdis after a mythological Greek sea monster, won’t set sail until next year, potentially after one of the most pro-green energy administrations in history has left the White House.
—Brian Cheung, NBC News, 30 June 2024
What comes next is a bunch of dystopian things happening like washed up sea monsters and alien lasers trying to trap them.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 28 June 2024
In southwestern Australia, an unknown predator with a taste for great white and mako sharks ignites fears of sea monsters in the abyss.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
To stop sea monsters from coming up into the Mediterranean, wrote Diodorus Siculus, an ancient-Greek historian.
—Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
Moral of the story: Don’t take healthy relationship cues from sea monsters.
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—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
One Encinitas resident dressed as a scuba diver being eaten by a kraken, a legendary sea monster akin to an octopus said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland.
—Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
This provides some evidence that these sucky-mouthed sea monsters and humans are much more closely related than the team anticipated.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
In Norway and Iceland, legend has it that the Kraken, a giant sea monster similar to a squid or octopus, is lurking in local seas, only to occasionally rise and go on a rampage.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
Brian Cheung, NBC News, 30 June 2024
What comes next is a bunch of dystopian things happening like washed up sea monsters and alien lasers trying to trap them.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 28 June 2024
In southwestern Australia, an unknown predator with a taste for great white and mako sharks ignites fears of sea monsters in the abyss.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
To stop sea monsters from coming up into the Mediterranean, wrote Diodorus Siculus, an ancient-Greek historian.
—Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
Moral of the story: Don’t take healthy relationship cues from sea monsters.
5.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
One Encinitas resident dressed as a scuba diver being eaten by a kraken, a legendary sea monster akin to an octopus said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland.
—Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024
This provides some evidence that these sucky-mouthed sea monsters and humans are much more closely related than the team anticipated.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
In Norway and Iceland, legend has it that the Kraken, a giant sea monster similar to a squid or octopus, is lurking in local seas, only to occasionally rise and go on a rampage.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
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“Sea monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20monster. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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