How to Use kraken in a Sentence

kraken

noun
  • In other words, the oceans may have had their own version of a kraken all along.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The kraken has taken on many shapes in the minds of mariners and in the renderings of artists.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • Some stayed just a fraction of an inch wide, while other kraken-like giants grew to more than eight feet across.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 13 May 2019
  • And if one Cretaceous kraken has been uncovered, there may be more waiting to be found.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Sue Doster, 53, struggled to hold up her top hat, a foam sailboat being sunk by the red tentacles of a kraken sea monster.
    — Luis FerrÉ-SadurnÍ, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Linnaeus classified the kraken as a cephalopod, the group that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2020
  • Similar sightings of giant oarfish, giant squid and other undersea giants led early sailors to weave tales about sea serpents, the kraken and other beasts.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Contact with water awakens something deep within Ruby and releases her inner kraken.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The rum’s namesake, the kraken, shares some similarities with aliens and extraterrestrials.
    — Jeanette Hurt, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Adventurous sailors once staved off scurvy by eating penguins, but the house specialty on this ship is kraken, the mythological giant octopus.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Kraken, one of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges, said it’s being extorted by a criminal group that claims to have access to some client account information.
    — Olga Kharif, Bloomberg, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The story will include the Calico Jade pirate character plus monkeys, flamingos and a kraken, Legoland says.
    — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2022
  • After feasting on the delicious sea reptile, the kraken felt artistic and made a self-portrait, arranging their bones in a pattern resembling the suckers on its tentacle.
    — Douglas Main, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2011
  • Long before sailors told stories of the kraken — a mythical sea monster said to drag ships beneath the waves — something eerily similar may have actually existed.
    — Ryan Brennan april 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Kraken forward Freddy Gaudreau had his stick on Wallstedt’s glove hand, preventing the goalie from stopping a Jaden Schwartz.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The asymmetry of the wear on the krakens’ jaws, meanwhile, hints that different parts of the animals’ brain were specialized for different tasks—a sign of advanced cognition in these invertebrates.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 4 June 2026
  • The kraken of Nordic legends was likely based on actual sightings of giant squid and octopuses, but folklore embellished it into a monstrosity capable of creating massive whirlpools and swallowing up even the largest ships.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Since its municipal establishment in 2018, Roku City has been a metropolis intermittently besieged by mythical creatures including a kraken, a big robot, and a Godzilla-like kaiju.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025

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