How to Use sea star in a Sentence

sea star

noun

• In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• The ochre sea star makes its home in rocky tide pools all along the California coast.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• Check out sea stars in Crystal Cove State Park’s tide pools and spend the night in a rustic cottage.
  — Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
• Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• Is your toddler sleeping in your bed, spread out like a sea star between you and your partner?
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• The vehicle had encountered a bright orange Brisingid, a type of deep-sea sea star, clinging to a rock on the seafloor.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• See above for photos of several new and rare sea stars, plus deep-sea tubeworms.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
• The disease, which affects about 20 sea star species, is horror-movie gruesome.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
• For instance, sea star wasting syndrome has been killing these predators of sea urchins.
  — Andria Greene, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• With mass numbers of sea stars dead, the urchins proliferated, chomping their way through the kelp forests.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• The sea star is known as a Chondraster and is characterized by its five arms covered with tiny suckers.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
• Science One of the world’s largest sea stars is on track to receive Endangered Species Act protections.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• After the purple urchin’s main predator, the sunflower sea star, died off from a wasting disease, the urchins ate up the kelp that remained.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021
• At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
  — Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• The organization is also trying to find ways to revive the sea urchins’ predator - the sea star.
  — Lucy Sherriff, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
• Some have gotten lucky, having never been hit by storms or swarms of ravenous sea stars.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• Warmer waters also mean that coral-eating sea stars survive longer, lay more eggs, and cause more damage.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• Most closely related to sea urchins, sea stars (aka starfish), sea lilies, and sand dollars, these bottom-dwellers range from as small as one inch long up to six feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• The film has maintained its support from its sea stars, and audiences are taking their tails to see the film over Memorial Day weekend.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar sea stars.
  — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2016
• The world’s second-largest sea star is literally melting away.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
• Otters and sea lions bask on the jetty; pumpkin orange sea stars are visible in the clear water, and cormorants and gulls circle above the rock.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• Global warming and coastal development threaten the sunflower sea star, which lives in tidal and sub-tidal areas along the West Coast.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Deep coral reefs provide habitat for sharks, swordfish, sea stars, octopus, shrimp and many other kinds of fish, the scientists said.
  — Christina Larson, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tanks are filled with fish and sea creatures; brave kids can gently (with two fingers) touch lobsters, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• Of course, other sea star eyes may be better than those of Linckia laevigata—some species, like the crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci), move quickly to chase down prey.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2014
• When a male sand-sifting sea star in the coastal waters of Australia reaches out a mating arm to its nearest neighbor, sometimes that neighbor is also male.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2020
• The die-off was triggered in 2013 when millions of sea stars along the coast of California withered and died from a mysterious wasting disease.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Beyond just sea stars, the findings may help scientists understand how new animal shapes and structures evolve in other branches of the tree of life, Oliveri says.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024