How to Use tentacle in a Sentence

tentacle

noun

• The corporation's tentacles are felt in every sector of the industry.
• The evil Doc swings from a light post thanks to his tentacle arms.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
• The lack of the trailing tentacle for which the Atolla jelly is known.
  — Sarah Parvinistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• Just one of the many tentacles to an issue that won’t go away anytime soon.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
• Its tentacles are going to reach all corners of the earth.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 July 2023
• The tar whale screeched and eldritch tentacles burst from its face, forming a maw designed to drag me into the world of the dead.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• The species is quite small — sometimes just a half inch across — and is distinguished by the bulbous tips of its tentacles.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• The tentacles on its back appear to have some type of defensive role.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• 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
• The footage is eerily transfixing, and shows the worms and eels weaving their way through the bones of the dead whale while octopi watch on with their tentacles raised.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• In one pic the model wears just the Network silver ear cuff, while a lengthy silver tentacle protrudes from the top of her spine.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2023
• During my visit, the grayish pink tentacles of the octopus clinging to the side of the glass wall of her tank started to flash bright white.
  — Sonia Shah, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• This tentacle-rific two-piece costume comes in six sizes to transform pets big and small into the cutest sea creature in the world.
  — Emmy Favilla, CNN Underscored, 7 Oct. 2020
• Some of those colonies reside in the jelly blob-like float, while others reside in its tentacles.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 6 July 2023
• The star-nosed mole has 22 tentacle-like rays on its snout that provide it with an exceptional sense of touch.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2019
• The center of its body is white and slug-like with skinny yellow tentacles branching off.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• Then a protrusion — an arm, a leg, or perhaps a tentacle — pops out.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 26 July 2019
• In most jellyfish, stinging cells are part of the tentacles.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The caramelized tentacles of the squid were crunchy outside and silky inside; the swordfish was impossibly juicy.
  — Seth Kugel, New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Princess Andromeda was within 20 feet of the sea monster’s tentacles when the horse suddenly popped down on the shore next to her.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019
• The body of an armed anemone can reach about 8 inches across and its tentacles can reach almost 20 inches long, the scientists said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• By-the-wind sailors also have tiny hanging tentacles with stinging cells.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
• As is the case with other types of squid, giant squid have eight arms and two tentacles used for feeding that extend and capture food.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• Prep: Remove tentacles, then score the tubes crosswise every ¼ inch, being careful not to cut all the way through.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 20 May 2019
• So what impact will taking out Baghdadi have on the rest of those tentacles?
  — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2019
• Video shows the eagle's wings tangled with the bright red octopus' tentacles.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2019
• The purple tentacles of a sea anemone blossomed like petals of a dahlia, and a sluglike nudibranch with electric orange spots clung to a ribbon of kelp.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The craft’s tentacle-like arms will grab Vespa, an ESA upper stage rocket left behind in 2013.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 17 Nov. 2021
• This dish is a delicious serving of calamari rings and tentacles tossed in a umami glaze.
  — Camila Vallejo, courant.com, 9 July 2019
• Speeded up, there’s something grotesque about the tentacle of doom that crushes to death a plant known for its expertise in self-defense.
  — Stephen Armstrong, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024