Example Sentences

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Having an extra-thick uterine lining, as is the case in humans, helps the female body keep at bay the tentacle-like villi of the invasive human placenta should pregnancy occur.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2024

The plan’s edges are cut into tentacle-like shapes, from which extend medical tubes, some covered in black netting.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

But, am I committed enough to the idea to buy one for $400 that looks like a medical accessory with a giant, tentacle-like umbilical cord coming out of it?

From The Verge • Sep. 13, 2017

The medusa is dome-shaped, with tentacle-like appendages hanging down from the edges of the dome.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

These systems revealed their devious and dark ways, ramifying as they did tentacle-like even across the ocean in their efforts to gain their ends in neutral America.

From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)