tentacle

[ UK /tˈɛntəkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛntəkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold
    caught in the tentacles of organized crime
  2. 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
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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.
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