Tentacle is an English word with synonyms like grip or grasp. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tentacle meaning
- An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
- One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
- An insidious reach or influence.
Using Tentacle
- The main meaning on this page is: An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid. | One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants. | An insidious reach or influence.
- Useful related words include: grip, grasp, process, outgrowth.
- In the example corpus, tentacle often appears in combinations such as: the tentacle, purple tentacle, tentacle is.
Context around Tentacle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tentacle
- In this selection, "tentacle" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, purple, water, disembodied, cameron, sculpted and rape stand out and add context to how "tentacle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blue tentacle creature impaling and a giant tentacle monster. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tentacle" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tentacle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The first trailer for depicts a blue tentacle creature impaling a Combine soldier. (13 words)
The truth is in the case of George, it’s which tentacle to tickle. (14 words)
As the tentacle that has grabbed him pulls him away, he yells "Help!" in French. (15 words)
Fun to make is not one of them." citation Post-production To create the alien water tentacle, Cameron initially considered cel animation or a tentacle sculpted in clay and then animated via stop-motion techniques with water reflections projected onto it. (41 words)
Brittle stars, crinoids and sea cucumbers in general do not have sensory organs but some burrowing sea cucumbers of the order Apodida have a single statocyst adjoining each radial nerve and some have an eyespot at the base of each tentacle. (41 words)
Often cited for creating the hentai and tentacle rape genres, it contains extreme depictions of violence and monster sex. citation It is notable for being the first depiction of tentacle sex on screen. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fun to make is not one of them." citation Post-production To create the alien water tentacle, Cameron initially considered cel animation or a tentacle sculpted in clay and then animated via stop-motion techniques with water reflections projected onto it.
Often cited for creating the hentai and tentacle rape genres, it contains extreme depictions of violence and monster sex. citation It is notable for being the first depiction of tentacle sex on screen.
The game's plot follows Bernard Bernoulli and his friends Hoagie and Laverne as they attempt to stop the evil Purple Tentacle—a sentient, disembodied tentacle—from taking over the world.
These are replaced by the purple tentacle from yet another LucasArts adventure game Day of the Tentacle in the special edition versions.
Upon contact, nematocysts on the tentacle fire into the prey, and the tentacle itself coils around the prey.
Bold flavors litter the menu, like their classic, self-named taco, which boasts a grilled octopus tentacle.
Tentacle: "Deputies, deciding Sereda had clearly reached his limit, declared it was the last call and reached out to remove the hoppy beverage.
The truth is in the case of George, it’s which tentacle to tickle.
The first trailer for depicts a blue tentacle creature impaling a Combine soldier.
The primary logo is a tentacle shaped into an “S” in the style of the old Seattle Metropolitans jersey and logo.
Imperial fighters chase the Falcon through a stormy nebula that also seems to be home to a giant tentacle monster.
That mysterious force is cosmic and full of tentacle-monsters, and our titular protagonist is indeed connected to whatever they are and their plans.
All species also flick larger particles towards the mouth with a tentacle, and a few capture zooplankton (planktonic animals) by using their tentacles as cages.
As the tentacle that has grabbed him pulls him away, he yells "Help!" in French.
Brittle stars, crinoids and sea cucumbers in general do not have sensory organs but some burrowing sea cucumbers of the order Apodida have a single statocyst adjoining each radial nerve and some have an eyespot at the base of each tentacle.
Budding sites vary by species; from the tentacle bulbs, the manubrium (above the mouth), or the gonads of hydromedusae.
Day of the Tentacle features a four-minute long animated opening credit sequence, the first LucasArts game to have such.
Day of the Tentacle has featured regularly in lists of "top" games published more than two decades after its release, and aspects have been referenced in popular culture.
Day of the Tentacle was one of the first games concurrently released on CD-ROM and floppy disk.
Her body consisted of 12 tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail, while four to six dog-heads ringed her waist.
Common combinations with tentacle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: