How to Use sea star in a Sentence

sea star

noun
  • Where had sea star wasting disease come from?
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After the sickness, a lot of sea star species did start to come back.
    — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The area's tidepools are home to sea stars, chitons, crabs and limpets.
    — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Maybe sea star wasting disease was caused by algae?
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • His images show sea stars that look deflated.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The base of the cape will offer views of sea stars, anemones, barnacles, and more.
    — Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Could it be transmitted from sea star to sea star or spread through aquaculture?
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • See above for photos of several new and rare sea stars, plus deep-sea tubeworms.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
  • The ochre sea star makes its home in rocky tide pools all along the California coast.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • These sea stars can measure more than 3 feet from tip to tip and appear in a range of colors.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Is your toddler sleeping in your bed, spread out like a sea star between you and your partner?
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Does the same bacteria affect other species of sea stars?
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For instance, sea star wasting syndrome has been killing these predators of sea urchins.
    — Andria Greene, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
  • In ecosystems, keystone species—like beavers or sea stars—are small but essential.
    — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
  • Some have gotten lucky, having never been hit by storms or swarms of ravenous sea stars.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
  • But researchers working on sea star wasting disease simply didn’t have much to work from.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
    — Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Without sea stars to balance the food web, urchin numbers have exploded.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • In the end, the cause of sea star wasting disease wasn’t discovered in a lab, but in a meeting.
    — JSTOR Daily, 17 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
  • Warmer waters also mean that coral-eating sea stars survive longer, lay more eggs, and cause more damage.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
  • The disease, which affects about 20 sea star species, is horror-movie gruesome.
    — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
  • Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar sea stars.
    — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The world’s second-largest sea star is literally melting away.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Roughly 45 minutes of swimming among coral, fish and blue sea stars passed in what felt like 10.
    — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
  • With mass numbers of sea stars dead, the urchins proliferated, chomping their way through the kelp forests.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The sea star is known as a Chondraster and is characterized by its five arms covered with tiny suckers.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021

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