- plural of tentacle.
tentacles
Example Sentences
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It suggests using tweezers or the edge of a bank card to remove the tentacles as soon as possible as they can continue to sting while attached to the body.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Phishing scams are like an octopus: They have many sticky tentacles.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Iran and the militias have tentacles throughout the economy,” said Victoria Taylor, who oversaw Iraq policy at the Biden administration State Department and is now at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The imagery in “Minions & Monsters” can be ingenious, like the galumphing tentacles on an oversize squid or the close-up shot that goes inside a director’s megaphone to see his tongue waggling at the screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He’d gotten so many blisters, his fingers looked like tentacles.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
