tentacled
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- multitentacled adjective
- untentacled adjective
Etymology
Origin of tentacled
Example Sentences
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In recognition of the need for novel scares, the TV series offers a little tentacled eyeball monster, shaped and smart like an octopus, that zombifies its hosts.
From Los Angeles Times
Grace is the snail of Elliot’s title; she’s constantly wearing a hat adorned with two tentacled eyes made out of juggling balls.
From Los Angeles Times
The furred and the hoofed, the feathered and the chaotically tentacled roam, slither and sometimes howl in “The Animal Kingdom,” an amusing what-if French fantasy with a touch of comedy and some glints of horror.
From New York Times
Reefs are vibrant, living structures laid down over time by tiny tentacled animals.
From Science Magazine
Drive northwest out of Houston, and as cow pastures wrestle back the flat expanse from the city’s tentacled sprawl, there arise along the road, suddenly, improbably, many, many cricket fields.
From New York Times
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