How to Use sea cucumber in a Sentence

sea cucumber

noun
  • Fall means the start of dive fisheries for pricey sea cucumbers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Not oil, but the sea cucumber, a large slug-like creature that infests the ocean floor.
    — The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Red sea cucumbers last year paid out at over $4 a pound to fishermen.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The sea cucumber beside her stone is orange.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Thousands of sea cucumbers are overtaking the beach in a coastal town.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Rosario Beach is known for its tide pools, which teem with marine life such as sea stars, crabs, and sea cucumbers.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In this case, when a researcher removed the sea cucumber, some of its tube feet were left behind and stuck to the glass.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • This version comes with a lot of seafood — abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber, prawns — along with roasted duck, black moss and more.
    — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
  • The husky sea cucumbers were tempting, but the young survivalists had no idea how to turn them into food.
    — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
  • The waters are usually clear enough to spot starfish and sea cucumbers on the seafloor among the darting fish.
    — Terry Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2020
  • By expelling its viscera, the sea cucumber can buy itself time to crawl away from threats and seek safety.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Three other new sea cucumber species were identified and described in the same study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In the Challenger Deep, he was met by a swimming sea cucumber.
    — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The diverse all-day menu serves everything from sea cucumbers and bird’s nest soup to porridge and clay hot pots.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2024
  • Townsend said at one point regarding a dish featuring sea cucumbers.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to limpets and sea cucumbers, the girls tracked down gumboots, rock scallops, urchins, red rock crab, and tiny shrimp.
    — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
  • Starfish are more closely related to scum-sucking sea cucumbers and prickly sea urchins.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Whoever named the sea cucumber after a vegetable didn't give it enough credit.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Inside lie rows of drying seafood or plants—scallops, sea cucumbers, orange peel, all turning brown and gnarled in the sun.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Suddenly, one of them heaved itself upward toward me, a sea cucumber rising to stare us down.
    — Jennifer Billock, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Eels, sea cucumbers, queen conchs, marine turtles, some corals, sturgeons, and sea horses were also added to the list.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The sea cucumber's posterior is so much more than an exit hole for digestive waste.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
  • These sea cucumber tissues seem to violate some of those assumptions.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • From slimy sea cucumbers to fan-like sea lilies, the mysterious creatures live in complete darkness.
    — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2023
  • In the surrounding abyss, scientists have found mollusks, snails, worms, sea cucumbers, isopods, starfish and more.
    — Harry Stevens, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Sifting through some of the muck, researchers found two unfamiliar-looking sea cucumbers, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 9 July 2024
  • Researchers only found one multi-rayed sea cucumber in the Kermadec Trench, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Till 2001, there were no legal hurdles in catching sea cucumbers.
    — K A Shaji, Quartz India, 5 May 2020
  • Bêche-de-mer (trepang, or sea cucumber) fishing also drew outsiders to the Torres Strait.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Most aquatic animals swim but some also walk (crabs), jump (like a squirting scallop), and crawl (starfish, sea cucumbers).
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

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