How to Use sea monster in a Sentence

sea monster

noun
  • There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2023
  • The story is fully equipped with sea monsters, demons and treasure hunts.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • What comes next is a bunch of dystopian things happening like washed up sea monsters and alien lasers trying to trap them.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 28 June 2024
  • Roughly 80 million years ago, a large sea monster swam across present-day Texas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Like on the school run, or to battle colossal sea monsters that have emerged from a portal at the bottom of the ocean.
    — Evan Williams, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The first is the mythology of pirates and things like mermaids, sea monsters and treasure maps.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • So did Sauron cause the sea monster to attack the ship in order to meet up with Galadriel?
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2024
  • Then Aphrodite turned around, became a sea monster, devoured the actors and sunk into the sea.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • But said judgment, quite troublingly, also seems to involve some kind of hungry sea monster.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The Santa Cruz sea monster shows how decay can mislead even careful observers.
    — Stella Mayerhoff, Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • One such vessel, which takes its name from another sea monster—the Charybdis—is being built in Texas.
    — David Uberti, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In southwestern Australia, an unknown predator with a taste for great white and mako sharks ignites fears of sea monsters in the abyss.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
  • While the fish may have been inspiration for the tales of sea monsters, there are no reports of encounters with oarfish resulting in harm.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Further, the creatures in those earlier source texts are identified as whales, not mythical sea monsters.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The sea is still full of mystery sounds Feeling a bit disappointed that a giant sea monster didn’t make the Bloop?
    — Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The trailer features our first looks at Luffy’s stretchy superpowers, as well as a couple of impressive sea monsters.
    — Vulture, 18 June 2023
  • They were forced to offer their daughter as a sacrifice to Cetus to keep their entire kingdom from being ravaged by the sea monster.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The rare bones of an ancient sea monster dating back 80 million years ago were recently unearthed in northeast Texas.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 18 Sep. 2024
  • There are other moments where Red and Chloe come face to face with sea monsters or narrowly escape danger and magic spells with evil twists.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 July 2024
  • The concepts of sea monsters, aliens, and even the entirety of Atlantis dropping to the ocean floor—those are fodder for books, television, and movies.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
  • This provides some evidence that these sucky-mouthed sea monsters and humans are much more closely related than the team anticipated.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Dominion is trying to remove some of the uncertainty with its new ship, Charybdis, which is named for a mythical Greek sea monster.
    — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Some of the fountains depict sea monsters, while others depict ancient gods and goddesses like Ceres, Venus, and Diana.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One hundred sixty million years ago, an elegant sea monster lay down on its right side and died on the warm, muddy ocean bottom near the present-day town of Lookout, Wyoming.
    — Robert Baker, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • She’s covered in body paint and glitter like the rest of the cast (there is an underwater sea monster theme, naturally), but in her uniform, behind the counter—nearly unchanged.
    — Lauren Morrow september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In this case, more of an eco-minded one where the pollution in Seoul’s Han River leads to the creation of a gigantic sea monster with a taste for humans.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Until now, most research on these early Mesozoic sea monsters — the first tetrapods to adapt to marine life — has focused on the Northern Hemisphere.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • China’s sea monster Another nation picking up the Ekranoplan baton is China.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Capitalizing on the chilling trend of online videos that showcase the sinister side of the sea, the new line features five new animatronics and one additional sea monster.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024

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