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One possibility is our difficulty in relating to octopuses: Their personalities are hard to read and their water-dwelling bodies resemble miniature sea monsters with multiple tentacular limbs and bulging eyes.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023

Sometimes there’s the amplified ticking of a clock, a bursting heartbeat, a mismatched thrum of tentacular chords or a brass fanfare sliding into sinister dissonance.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2016

But she never quite shook Geraldine’s tentacular grip, or ceased to be tormented by her disapproval.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Much like his colleague Lamar, Washington had a tentacular approach when it came to his music.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2015

Shell internal and chitinous, ending aborally in a little narrow cone; tentacular arms short and thick; suckers with denticulate rings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various