How to Use octopus in a Sentence

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• Don’t miss the octopus and pig skin taco and suckling pig turnovers.
  — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2020
• Don’t miss the killer cocktails and the fiery spiced lamb and octopus dishes cooked on a smoky open grill.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
• Fried octopus comes with red onions, fennel and a tangy gloss of lemon.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The coconut octopus was sitting in a small hollow in the sand.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Gemel Smith woke up from his game-day nap, grabbed his phone and saw a tweet with an octopus.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 21 Jan. 2022
• The seafood options are vast, like ceviche and shrimp tostadas, and soups with octopus and shrimp.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 23 Apr. 2024
• Order the octopus salad and grilled fish for your last seafood feast in Dubrovnik.
  — Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023
• Unlike the octopus, though, the limpet can’t change the shape of its layers after they are laid down.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• The size and shape of the tooth marks pointed to gastropods and octopuses as the likely culprits.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• The octopus is served cold in a vinaigrette, which is a most excellent way to cool down.
  — Esra Erol, Bon Appétit, 5 Aug. 2022
• The zoo is preparing the space for a smaller octopus species in the future.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• The zoo is preparing the space for a smaller octopus species in the future.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• Like the one with your cat in that octopus costume on Halloween.
  — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 18 July 2024
• The porteño ceviche is a bright orange bowl filled with pillows of sea bass and slices of octopus.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
• The hydrothermal springs are as big of a finding as the new species of octopus.
  — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• Quarter the olives, slice the cucumber and finely chop some onion for the octopus.
  — Jim Webster, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Some of our Spanish octopus comes from the Mediterranean Sea.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• There, in his room, is a corner with a tiny armchair, a short bookshelf, and a stuffed octopus.
  — Tara Bannow, STAT, 15 Aug. 2022
• For diners who want to follow his lead, try the octopus.
  — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• Anyway, the news cycle had moved on to the octopus predicting the World Cup.
  — Emi Nietfeld, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2019
• How many other octopus nurseries exist on the seafloor around the world?
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• But yeah, just the act of picking up the octopus and getting a wet octopus in the bed was so funny and weird.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 July 2024
• The staff retrieved the octopus and the eagle with a pole and separated them.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2019
• Luckily for the bald eagle, the fishermen helped to release it from the vice grip of the octopus.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• In the wild, octopuses are among nature’s best shape shifters.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 4 July 2024
• His house is not a pineapple under the sea, nor is he neighbors with an octopus.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
• Some of my favorites on the menu include the wood oven-roasted octopus, the truffle pizza, and the mezze platter!
  — Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2023
• Who said the prosthetic limb needs to look like a hand and not like a tentacle from an octopus?
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
• An octopus in senescence stays in her den guarding her eggs and may lose more than half her body weight.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Living mollusks come in a wide array of forms–snails, clams, and highly intelligent cephalopods like squids and octopuses.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024