How to Use starfish in a Sentence

starfish

noun
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  • The starfish brooch is huge and heavy, the size of the palm of your hand.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The starfish looked real enough to climb out of the case and march up my arm. . . .
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 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
  • Murthy is that guy on the beach, throwing starfish back in the ocean one at a time.
    — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • The worst thing about crown-of-thorns starfish is their appetite.
    — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
  • And on top of them was a bustling menagerie of worms, starfish, snails, crabs, shrimp, clams, and corals.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The girls in an Iraqi village wake up, each with a starfish in her hair.
    — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The man came to a halt on his back with his limbs splayed, looking like a beached starfish.
    — Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The jeweler that created the starfish was the House of Boivin, which opened in the 1890s.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The starfish seen sitting idly by the sponge belongs to the genus Chondraster.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021
  • The starfish glowed orange, and dolphins frolicked in the waves next to us.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Then raise your free leg out to the side and your free arm toward the ceiling, like a starfish.
    — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 20 May 2021
  • Jumping jacks: Stretch arms and legs out to the side like a starfish while jumping.
    — Catherine Holecko, Parents, 3 July 2024
  • In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef.
    — National Geographic, 3 Mar. 2020
  • All starfish don’t look the same, but this one became a breakout star.
    — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 3 July 2019
  • Cabrinovic tells Pavid that the mass stranding of starfish, at least, isn’t a concern for the species.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish, sand dollars, and crabs.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • And this child is running around picking up the starfish and throwing them one at a time back in the ocean.
    — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Her high-heeled shoes were decked out with starfish, shells, pearls and other accents that evoked the ocean.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Both the starfish and sponge shown in the image live in a deep-sea habitat where no light penetrates.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021
  • Porcelain crabs scuttle by tiny starfish clinging to the blades.
    — Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Guests here will find eels, starfish, and colorful coral.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, some starfish make their own light.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Display goods that could have been found on a walk along the beach, like seashells, driftwood, sand dollars, starfish, and sea glass ...
    — Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For some animals, that means a brain, but starfish don’t have that organ.
    — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Researchers found the starfish in the remains of a round structure called the Cuauhxicalco.
    — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The Octonauts have to hold back coral-eating starfish in this special.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Getting my printer/scanner to work is like trying to train a starfish to jump through hoops.
    — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 13 Mar. 2021
  • There, scientists said, the reef fell prey to an outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish, which feed solely on live coral.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The celebration featured balloon arches, a dessert wall and a tide pool filled with stingrays, starfish and a bamboo shark.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 28 July 2024

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