How to Use cephalopod in a Sentence

cephalopod

noun
  • These cephalopods live in the cold, deep ocean where no light can reach.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • But now there’s proof these cephalopods sometimes hang out in small cities.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2017
  • That was all the crafty cephalopod needed.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The small cephalopods use the venom to protect themselves and kill their prey.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The cephalopods didn’t show a preference between their right and left arms.
    — Evan Bush, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Critters from sea otters to cephalopods have been observed using tools in the wild.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In the case of the cephalopod, that action changes how light is reflected off its skin.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Unlike many other cephalopods, who kind of like us, or at least tolerate us, squid hate us.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 May 2025
  • These soft-bodied, golf ball-size cephalopods don’t have much to protect them from predators like seals, eels and fish.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
  • Their diet likely included large fish, shelled cephalopods and clams.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Shortfin makos have been known to hunt small sharks, porpoises, sea turtles, seabirds, bony fish and cephalopods.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Vertebrates ditched their body armor and scales for smooth skin; cephalopods lost their external shell.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And the team found similar mechanisms in other cephalopods as well.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The black marine mammals with bulbous heads primarily feed on the cephalopods and some small amounts of fish.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Their diet likely included sizable fish, shelled cephalopods and clams.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • If not, will Spain continue to be so adoring toward the cephalopod ?
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2010
  • By matching their skin to the background behind them, these cephalopods blend in almost seamlessly.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Such noise has already been shown to have adverse effects in fish, whales and other marine mammals as well as cephalopods.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The cephalopod achieves this feat through a network of pigment cells called chromatophores just below the surface of its skin.
    — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • In 2015, Albertin led a team that sequenced the first genome of a cephalopod.
    — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Out of the many bizarre stories that have come out of 2017, one of the most bizarre might be this bit of cephalopod intrigue.
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Both are extinct species of small cephalopod mollusks and are in abundance on Charmouth Beach.
    — David Shaftel, New York Times, 23 May 2018
  • That’s partly because records of imports of cephalopods to the United States are spotty and out of date.
    — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Second, there were cephalopods, which include the octopus and cuttlefish.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The wear, the researchers demonstrate in their study, was more severe than what is typically seen in modern cephalopods that feed on hard prey.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods are on a very different part of the tree of life from vertebrates.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
  • Known for their curious and inquisitive nature, these sharks often patrol coral reefs in search of prey such as fish and cephalopods.
    — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The cephalopod brain — the largest of any invertebrate — is still something of a mystery to scientists.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2016
  • And since 2012, he's been looking at the vision of cephalopods, the class of mollusks of which cuttlefish are a part.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The stick figures in the sketch resemble cephalopods, a class of animal that includes octopuses and squids.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024

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