How to Use tentacle in a Sentence

tentacle

noun
Definition of tentaclenext
  • 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
  • One of the actors in it turns to the camera, and of course, he’s got the sucker welts all over him from the tentacles of the giant squid.
    — Robert Englund, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • And some of us understand that rock has so many tentacles to blues and to church.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • 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 corals scooped the plastic toward their mouths with their tentacles, then gobbled up the trash.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • 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 problem has tentacles far beyond the welfare of those living on the streets.
    — Maeve Reston and Video By Gabe Ramirez, CNN, 21 Apr. 2018
  • From there, the group spread its tentacles into Iraq and Syria.
    — TIME.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But the number and look of the animal’s tentacles, as well as its shape, don’t add up to either class.
    — Tim Samuel, National Geographic, 7 June 2016
  • Unable to escape the tentacles of the racial obsessions that carried him to the White House, Mr. Trump drowned all around him.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • As tentacles explode out of mouths and a chicken bursts through a man's chest, things reach a boiling point.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • The tentacles on its back appear to have some type of defensive role.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • While the tentacles are green and purple (and a bit adorable), the jack-o’-lantern has bleeding eyes, which seriously ups the creepy vibe.
    — Kaitlin Gates, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Looks like that pine cone was inserted with some kind of tentacle!
    — Dave Barry, miamiherald, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Read Next Deep-sea creature — with yellowy tentacles and over 80 feet — is new species.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Boko Haram’s tentacles reached there, too, and in May 2014, two bombs ripped through the city’s business district, where his mother worked.
    — Andy Marso, kansascity.com, 16 June 2017
  • 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
  • The close-up on the tentacles wriggling before Ursula sticks this thing in her nose?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 May 2024
  • Shaped like little tentacles, the pasta comes seasoned with a cream of black garlic, lemon, and chives.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2024
  • But there are more tentacles than ever, and Kuechly seems to be at the intersection of all of them.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • 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

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