tentacle - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • quiver: Up shot the game play pool yahoo glittering, quivering tentacle of Rosium, vibrating for a few moments like a thread of silver.
  • extend: Shaped roughly like an octopus, the massif extends six tentacles or arms around 12 lakes.
  • tip: When an insect lands on a sundew, its legs and wings get caught on the sticky tipped tentacles like flies on fly paper.
  • have: The veritable Est Est Est chain has tentacles reaching out across the north west.
  • get: Get out of the water as soon as you can and have someone help get any tentacles off your skin.
  • see: I looked up, saw tentacles in front of my face.

Converse of subject

  • surround: The mouth is surrounded by tentacles used for the intake of food.

Adjective modifier

  • stinging: There were quite a thick bunch of stinging tentacles still attached, to a length of about 15 cm.
  • long: Suddenly, the pulsing core shot long tentacles through the surrounding rock.
  • short: Has characteristic deeply folded oral disk, with short tentacles.
  • many: Its a funny looking fish, with many thin tentacles on its face.
  • slimy: Then, flapping out of the doorway, six slimy green tentacles with snake heads emerged, hissing loudly.
  • white: With translucent white tentacles, waving like wings in a breeze, they are a wonderful sight to greet the amateur microscopist.

Modifies a noun

  • span: SIZE Never more than about l cm in height, with a 1.5 tentacle span.

Noun used with modifier

  • fx: Page 6 1 [ View of Goryoumaru outside. ] fx tentacles crack crack 2 [ Closeup of Inuyasha noticing this. ] Inuyasha!
  • squid: For the extension of a squid tentacle, our numerical results are in excellent agreement with existing experimental results.
  • octopus: It has to be a Seafood Special with extra octopus tentacles.

Preposition: of

  • anemone: Huge numbers of crinoids swarm across the gully bottoms, carefully avoiding the outstretched tentacles of the anemones.
  • jellyfish: Although I only slightly came in contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish ( on my chest ), the sting was VERY painful.
  • octopus: Moreover, he had dreams of the sort that cling to the emerging minds like the dim tentacles of an octopus.

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