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

Examples of sea monster in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In this case, more of an eco-minded one where the pollution in Seoul’s Han River leads to the creation of a gigantic sea monster with a taste for humans. —

Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024 The first is the mythology of pirates and things like mermaids, sea monsters and treasure maps. —

Rob Wieland, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 Roughly 80 million years ago, a large sea monster swam across present-day Texas. —

Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024 The rare bones of an ancient sea monster dating back 80 million years ago were recently unearthed in northeast Texas. —

Ariana Garcia, Chron, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sea monster

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