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octopus - use in sentences
Converse of object
- eat: Director: I want you to eat the octopus.
- see: We also saw an octopus breaking open a shell.
- include: It was a nice 9m dive with plenty of sea life to be seen including an octopus.
- find: Ingrid signaled to me that she had found an octopus, but I pointed to my air gage, and to the beach.
- do: How does octopus cooked in its own ink sound?
- mimic: Our DM showed us all kinds of interesting stuff highlights included frog fish, seahorse, pipe fish and a mimic octopus!
Adjective modifier
- blue-ringed: As with Mabul, it has a great dive under its jetty, where rare blue-ringed octopus can be seen.
- giant: It's called Octopus - it's a movie about a giant octopus.
- live: The live octopus will be weighed and measured and taken to the Guernsey Aquarium.
- large: The largest octopus the North Pacific Octopus that may grow to over 10 meters.
- amazing: Over 30 living displays reveal the sheer variety of life in the deep from native sharks and lobsters to the amazing octopus and seahorses.
Modifies a noun
- vulgaris: The male Octopus vulgaris caught on the morning of October 30 off the southeast coast of Guernsey died overnight.
- jellyfish: Report from Stella Turk 17 July 2002 Rhizostoma octopus jellyfish in Torquay harbor, Devon.
- regulator: The dive leader filled the buoy with air from his octopus regulator.
- arm: Octopus arms have minds of their own, sort of.
Noun used with modifier
- baby: We also saw a red baby octopus with white spots, not such a great camouflage!
- rhizostoma: There was also a dead 26 " diameter Rhizostoma octopus on the beach.
Possessives
- garden: In an octopus ' garden by the sea How often do we take the time to appreciate the wonder of nature?
Possessives
- buddy: Why hadn't I reached for my buddy's octopus?
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