Example Sentences

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Near the edges of the colony, many unused or abandoned nests cradled several icefish carcasses, many with starfishes and octopuses feasting on their eyes and soft parts.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

Ezio just starfishes his way through this one, and that’s so boring.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2016

The work of about 60 artists, they include a stuffed Pomeranian, a Gila monster and six-pointed starfishes, and oddities like nails from the coffin of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2014

There were starfishes and mermaids all around me.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The hard shells of sea urchins and starfishes are made of lime.

From Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Rogers, Julia Ellen