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UK
/tˈɛntəkəl/
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[ US /ˈtɛntəkəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛntəkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
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something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
caught in the tentacles of organized crime - any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
How To Use tentacle In A Sentence
- Even the shoes, booties with vertiginous heels, were covered in grasping little coral-like tentacles that shook as the models -- their faces abloom with gold and colorful stripes -- stomped down the catwalk. Balmain, Zac Posen, Rick Owens & Manish Arora Out Of This World In Paris (PHOTOS, POLL)
- What we do have here is a rather queer looking creature with a faceless Charlie Brown head, duck legs, two jointless yet pliable arms, and tentacles.
- But elsewhere in the world terrorism has spread its tentacles, leaving heavy tolls in its wake.
- The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
- They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language. WATCHING: District 9
- All jellyfish have stinging tentacles to catch food but these moon jellies have only a short fringe along their outer edge. The Sun
- She was sleeping deeply, her tentacles curled gently about her shelled torso.
- Helped by the suckers on her tentacles she can easily prise open clams and mussels that would defeat most people. Times, Sunday Times
- Its tentacles stretch far into the upper echelons of government. Times, Sunday Times
- Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.