How to Use tentacle in a Sentence

tentacle

noun
  • The corporation's tentacles are felt in every sector of the industry.
  • Its tentacles can be up to six feet long.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Its tentacles vary in length but can reach up to 3 feet long.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025
  • There's so many tentacles of this.
    — CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The evil Doc swings from a light post thanks to his tentacle arms.
    — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Some of their tentacles are short and straight while others are long and coiled.
    — Caroline Wilburn, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Even the sea, her cool blue refuge, teems with poisonous tentacles.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Now to the tentacles of the column.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • And some of us understand that rock has so many tentacles to blues and to church.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • Just one of the many tentacles to an issue that won’t go away anytime soon.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Looks like that pine cone was inserted with some kind of tentacle!
    — Dave Barry, miamiherald, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Hafley will tell you that this is a meticulous process that has many tentacles.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2026
  • Can tentacles and skulls be lovely?
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Who benefits from our fear of aging and how will its tentacles reach the young?
    — Daniella Walsh, Orange County Register, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The tentacles on its back appear to have some type of defensive role.
    — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Her tentacles shrink and retract into her body.
    — Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Those Longhorns tentacles are global in scope and will serve you well later in life.
    — American-Statesman Editorial Board, Austin American Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The monster could move around the stage, and other dancers acted as her tentacles.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Her tentacles are like wisps of spiderweb, each with an ocellus (an eye) at its base.
    — Mandy-Suzanne Wong, Longreads, 5 Feb. 2026
  • These points go back and forth from the center like an octopus’s tentacles.
    — Jeff Banowetz, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Then a protrusion — an arm, a leg, or perhaps a tentacle — pops out.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 26 July 2019
  • The corals scooped the plastic toward their mouths with their tentacles, then gobbled up the trash.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Its tentacles followed the Schaecters to the Gables, where their son was born.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Due to their size, their stingers on their tentacles are much too small to sting larger organisms.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Ramsay turns around to see an alien-like creature, complete with tentacles and bug-like head.
    — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Some corals even seem to investigate the oil with their tentacles.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • Avoid further contact with the tentacles, as this can spread the venom.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
  • As tentacles explode out of mouths and a chicken bursts through a man's chest, things reach a boiling point.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • With their long stinging tentacles, these big siphonophores do seem like the most likely suspects.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Who said the prosthetic limb needs to look like a hand and not like a tentacle from an octopus?
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 19 May 2021

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