How to Use anemone in a Sentence

anemone

noun
  • Even the frisky anemones seemed to jump out in the screen.
    Jose Fermoso, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2007
  • What does that mean for a clown fish that makes a home in a stressed anemone?
    Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Kids can look for starfish, snails, and anemones in the tide pools that form among the rocks at the north end of the beach.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • There were a few sponges, anemones and worms but in very low abundance.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Here, the black centers on the anemone pops and the white protea looks almost downy.
    Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Each indigo strand was as thick as a twig, and had the moist look of an anemone.
    Julie Orringer, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • Like all spring ephemerals, the clock is always ticking for the wood anemone.
    Dave Taft, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Hungry shrimp and anemones waited to pounce on the fresh hatchlings.
    Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Christmas anemones can be packaged in bright reds and greens.
    Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • The Comtesse de Bouchaud clematis and an anemone called Honorine Jobert flowered and were gone.
    Perdita Buchan, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2017
  • This set of anemone candleholders by Michael Aram fits the bill.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The rash is the result of baby jellyfish or anemone stingers.
    National Geographic, 28 June 2018
  • Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
    Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • This light source would make all the difference, as the soft coral and anemones absorbed the blue light, casting neon greens and reds back.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The waves have formed ripples in stunning hues of copper and green, and anemones and coral can be spotted in the shallow pools.
    Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Venus flytrap anemone And the most wonderfully weird one of all, the venus flytrap anemone.
    Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 26 May 2023
  • Another star of the show was a large white anemone perched behind the wheel of Endurance, looking ready to captain the ship.
    Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Without the gene, the anemone simply couldn’t grow new tentacles.
    Rasha Aridi, Science | AAAS, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The anemone that ate the polychaete stayed upright, its body stretched high into the water, for 56 hours after its meal.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2015
  • After maturing for 11 to 14 days, the juvenile is ready to swim back to the reef and select an anemone to call home.
    Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 23 June 2017
  • After maturing for 11 to 14 days, the juvenile is ready to swim back to the reef and select an anemone to call home.
    Scientific American, 29 May 2017
  • But many anemone species look the same on the outside, meaning researchers need to cut them open to identify them.
    New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Intact cabins have been taken over by corals, anemones, and fish.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • Undersea worlds of corals, anemones and rare marine species.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Since the last survey in 2010, the Portland had a new net draped across its port bow, displacing a cluster of fluffy, white-plumed anemones.
    Laura Trethewey, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Sea stars and an anemone lived in the habitat along with Chalupa and have been relocated to the Puget Sound habitat.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • The clear, cold waters are a window into the lives of Technicolor starfish and anemones.
    Margo Pfeiff, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Blue-purple asters come back each fall too, as do pink Japanese anemones.
    Taylor Augustin, House Beautiful, 14 June 2023
  • Now, the whale has become hard substrate, where suspension feeders like anemones and sponges can latch on and grow.
    Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • The textured barrel was not a tentacle-enclosing curtain but the body of the anemone.
    Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024

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