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
• In fact, the wrapper has a sketch of an octopus, its limbs spread across the paper.
  — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• 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
• The owner has a boat and a diver who goes into the sea, each day, to fetch him an octopus.
  — Liz Cantrell, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2019
• 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 market is well stocked with iced rows of tilapia, octopus and shellfish.
  — Jesse Pearson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• The size and shape of the tooth marks pointed to gastropods and octopuses as the likely culprits.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• One of the many amazing facts about the octopus that helped drive this work was that the creatures have as many as 2000 suckers.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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
• And, Shemtov revealed, his dad is now a fan of his octopus.
  — Penny Schwartz, sun-sentinel.com, 12 June 2019
• The next customers in line wanted the octopus as well; Uh told them I had nabbed the day’s final order of that dish.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2019
• The staff retrieved the octopus and the eagle with a pole and separated them.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2019
• Make bathtime fun with this adorable swimming octopus on sale for just $8 or a sorting farmhouse from Melissa & Doug to take along on play dates.
  — Laura Lu, Parents, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024