tentacle

I love thinking of a bag as a tentacle, and with this reimagining of Marakami’s Mr. DOB as a vibrant octopus, I’m ready to channel some Ursula energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

There were costume changes and choreographed dance numbers, even an intro where a moving tentacle flailed halfway out of her mouth.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

Her work includes creating a removable extra thumb and a tentacle arm.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024

"Repair-specific proliferative cells mainly contribute to the epithelium -- the thin outer layer -- of the newly formed tentacle."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2023

I nosed out, in my childish games, every last shark-toothed chamber and hall, every black tentacle of my mother’s cave, and so came at last, adventure by adventure, to the pool of firesnakes.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

It suggests using tweezers or the edge of a bank card to remove the tentacles as soon as possible as they can continue to sting while attached to the body.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Iran and the militias have tentacles throughout the economy,” said Victoria Taylor, who oversaw Iraq policy at the Biden administration State Department and is now at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The imagery in “Minions & Monsters” can be ingenious, like the galumphing tentacles on an oversize squid or the close-up shot that goes inside a director’s megaphone to see his tongue waggling at the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

It doesn’t matter if the current whips all around and sends my tentacles off in some random direction, my eyes are always right side up.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden