tentacles

Example Sentences

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I watched Les Bleus in person the other day, and their front line is an octopus-like marvel, expanding its tentacles, then striking with violence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

Along with his Unification Church, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon built a political propaganda empire, which had tentacles all over Washington, D.C., at one time.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2026

The brain tumour, he said, was like "a monster with tentacles spreading across the underside of my brain the width of a baseball".

From BBC • May 13, 2026

On one lamp in the studio, tentacles hold up cylindrical copper spires with submarine-style looking glasses to reveal a small bulb inside.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

His thick tresses floated loosely around his head like the black tentacles of a sea monster.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall