How to Use symbiote in a Sentence

symbiote

noun
  • By far the most common request was for the black symbiote suit, which the game doesn’t have.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Then boom, Brock and his symbiote are whisked right back to their world with little to no fanfare.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The symbiote should appear in the post-credits scenes rather than earlier in the movie.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe the alien symbiote will directly cross paths with Peter first.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • And then, there’s the whole murderous, tentacled, alien symbiote of it all.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In the comics, Scorpion is, at one point, a host for the Venom symbiote.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 6 July 2017
  • Brock ended up infected with one of the symbiotes, named Venom.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Knull created the symbiotes, who then betrayed him by trapping him in the center of their homeworld.
    — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
  • After all, Venom is an alien symbiote who wants to eat brains while living in Eddie's body.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But who exactly is Knull, the all-powerful creator of the symbiotes?
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Naomie Harris might soon be facing off against Tom Hardy’s slobbering symbiote.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The symbiote suit might be appropriate for Peter’s early college years.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The Blob doesn't show signs of evolving into a malicious symbiote with the ability to give humans crazy powers.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Venom is an alien symbiote that attaches itself to a host and imbues him or her with Spider-Man-like powers.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 July 2017
  • Norman Osborn secretly kept a piece of the symbiote to experiment on.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • But, given the unpredictable moviegoing landscape, that figure comes with a symbiote-sized asterisk.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Hardy plays Eddie Brock, who in the comics is a photojournalist who become bonded with an alien symbiote.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Eddie, Drake, and Anne Weying (Venom) can take a symbiote, no problem.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Infinity War where Eddie's symbiote gets freaked by Carnage for a second and doesn't want to come out.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Still wanting to serve his country, he was given the opportunity to bond with the Venom symbiote, whom Brock had been forced to give up.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • The story takes some dramatic twists and the Venom symbiote amplifies the game's overall aggression.
    — George Yang, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
  • Ridley Scott’s movie retains its influence — and the symbiote becomes even scarier in action than appearance.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But the best parts of the movie just leaned into the weirdness, letting star Tom Hardy turn the story of an alien symbiote who takes over the body of a disgraced journalist into a weird buddy comedy.
    — Keith Phipps, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2021
  • But the characters that Sony licenses from Marvel extend beyond Peter Parker and the symbiote.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In the comics, Kasady bonds with a symbiote of his own to become the notorious big bad Carnage, a homicidal maniac who frequently faces off against Venom.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • In the eighth installment of the limited series, published in 1984, Spidey encounters an alien symbiote -- sound familiar?
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Kasady has become infected with an alien symbiote of his own, forcing Eddie and Venom to work together to save San Francisco from certain doom.
    — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • By introducing the Venom symbiote — which all these years later is now the star of its own movies — Spider-Man 3 saw Peter become infused with the alien and get all cocky and emo.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Knull’s violent creatures battle Venom and the symbiotes (who find human hosts in the rando scientists around), and Venom ultimately sacrifices himself to save the day.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Even more than the first film’s director, Ruben Fleischer, Serkis understands that Venom’s primary intrigue is the romantic push and pull between symbiote and host.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2021

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