How to Use brittle star in a Sentence

brittle star

noun
  • But something was missing—brittle stars.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The brittle stars got an elevated perch from which to feed; the corals got a cleaning.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Purple-pink brittle stars still clung to the corals, their tendril-like arms wrapping around the branches like yarn.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The barnacles, the mussels, the orange sponge and baby brittle stars who shared her colony’s bit of pier.
    — Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The whale carcasses are home to a large community of jellyfish, brittle stars, bone-boring worms, and bivalves.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
  • One young explorer lifted a delicate brittle star briefly from the water to the joyful oohs and aahs of curious onlookers.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The remains stemming from recent whale falls—which were still being processed by thousands of invertebrates, including clams, worms, and brittle stars (many of which were likely new to science)—were thriving biological communities.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • The geyser was named after mineralogist Albert Charles Peale visited the geyser in 1878 and thought the rocks surrounding it resembled sea urchins, a group of animals that also contain starfish, brittle stars and sand dollars.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026

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