How to Use sea anemone in a Sentence

sea anemone

noun
  • But other creatures, such as corals and sea anemones, don’t even have brains.
    — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Across the water, for example, the shore is lined with sea anemones.
    — Emilie C. Harting, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Just an auteur singing her songs, dancing like a sea anemone in the darkness of the ocean floor.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Children reached out over a table and giggled as their turn came to hold live crabs and touch sea anemones.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • Imagining a coral reef might bring to mind scenes teeming with fish, crustaceans and sea anemones.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • In contrast, the sea anemones are more active at night and sleep more in the early morning hours.
    — New Atlas, 24 Jan. 2026
  • New way to keep city water clean Some sea anemones extend their tentacles to catch a meal.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Three months later, a sea anemone-like polyp rose like a phoenix from the degraded jellyfish.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
  • The new-to-science species catalogued so far include brittlestars, crabs, sea anemones and sponges.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Clown fishes live their entire adult lives nestled in the protective arms of a single sea anemone on a coral reef.
    — Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
  • The starlet sea anemone is a tiny invertebrate that lives in shallow, salty lagoons.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and comb jellies.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • While a sea anemone is nothing rare, fossil versions are highly uncommon.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Look out for eels’ eyes peeking out from coral castles, and watch the glowing green tentacles of a sea anemone wriggle in the tide.
    — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Trilobites would scuttle across the ocean floor past primitive sea anemones gripping the bottom with their fleshy holdfasts.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Many of these quirky-looking animals have an equally unusual diet—sea anemones.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2024
  • Anyone who has had the misfortune of stepping on a sea anemone can attest to the jolt of pain its tentacles deliver.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • The reef includes plush fish, barnacles, starfish, sea anemone and a removable octopus rattle kids can pull off and shake.
    — Taryn Mohrman, wsj.com, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals belong to a separate branch of the animal kingdom called cnidaria.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Animals discovered in the patch include crustaceans, sea anemones, mollusks and worms, the authors said.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Jellyfish sit alongside sea anemones, coral and hydra on the Cnidarian branch of the animal tree of life.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
  • The purple tentacles of a sea anemone blossomed like petals of a dahlia, and a sluglike nudibranch with electric orange spots clung to a ribbon of kelp.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Many homeowners have been startled this spring by strange growths on juniper trees, sprouting orange tentacles like miniature sea anemones.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • Reeled up from the ocean deep – coated in algae, barnacles and sea anemone – the haul had been sunk, deliberately, years before.
    — Alex Christian, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2020
  • When moving through a crowd of darting and preening Italians, her presence is anomalous — a sea anemone amid parrotfish.
    — Molly Young, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • While some species will be able to migrate to new territory, others—coral and sea anemones, for example—can't move and will simply go extinct.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Mystic Aquarium is known for its penguins, beluga whales, sea lions, sea anemones, sharks and all manner of marine life.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Eat at the beach while watching the surfers and seagulls before walking south of the neighborhood’s famous pier to explore tide pools full of sea anemones, crabs and more (best at low tide).
    — Freda Moon, New York Times, 18 July 2024
  • Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own.
    — New Atlas, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Farther west, in Port Renfrew, was Botanical Beach, where tide pools were filled with limpets, mussels and sea anemones.
    — Suzanne MacNeille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017

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