How to Use sea anemone in a Sentence

sea anemone

noun
Definition of sea anemonenext
  • Across the water, for example, the shore is lined with sea anemones.
    — Emilie C. Harting, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Just an auteur singing her songs, dancing like a sea anemone in the darkness of the ocean floor.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But other creatures, such as corals and sea anemones, don’t even have brains.
    — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Children reached out over a table and giggled as their turn came to hold live crabs and touch sea anemones.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
  • Imagining a coral reef might bring to mind scenes teeming with fish, crustaceans and sea anemones.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • New way to keep city water clean Some sea anemones extend their tentacles to catch a meal.
    — National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Look out for eels’ eyes peeking out from coral castles, and watch the glowing green tentacles of a sea anemone wriggle in the tide.
    — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Three months later, a sea anemone-like polyp rose like a phoenix from the degraded jellyfish.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
  • Clown fishes live their entire adult lives nestled in the protective arms of a single sea anemone on a coral reef.
    — Danielle L. Dixson, Scientific American, 23 June 2017
  • Farther west, in Port Renfrew, was Botanical Beach, where tide pools were filled with limpets, mussels and sea anemones.
    — Suzanne MacNeille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
  • At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
    — Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The starlet sea anemone is a tiny invertebrate that lives in shallow, salty lagoons.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Jellyfish sit alongside sea anemones, coral and hydra on the Cnidarian branch of the animal tree of life.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
  • The Endurance rested upright on the seafloor; the ship’s wheel was almost perfectly intact, and a pink-and-white sea anemone had fastened itself to the deck railing.
    — Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Anyone who has had the misfortune of stepping on a sea anemone can attest to the jolt of pain its tentacles deliver.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Trilobites would scuttle across the ocean floor past primitive sea anemones gripping the bottom with their fleshy holdfasts.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals belong to a separate branch of the animal kingdom called cnidaria.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Animals discovered in the patch include crustaceans, sea anemones, mollusks and worms, the authors said.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Their closest relatives that still live today include sponges, sea anemones and comb jellies.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • While some species will be able to migrate to new territory, others—coral and sea anemones, for example—can't move and will simply go extinct.
    — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
  • Gilbert’s tie is decorated with orange sea anemones, George’s with winter roses that match the yellow flower in his lapel, plucked not long before from a crack in the pavement.
    — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2019
  • There were 124 animals identified in pictures with plastic, ranging from sea anemone to ray-finned fish known as actinopterygians.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
  • While a sea anemone is nothing rare, fossil versions are highly uncommon.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Mystic Aquarium is known for its penguins, beluga whales, sea lions, sea anemones, sharks and all manner of marine life.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Built into a teak replica of a fishing skiff in the center of the exhibits area, the pool encourages visitors to get their hands wet to engage with Cownose and Atlantic stingrays, along with horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs and sea anemones.
    — Joe Burbank, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The priestess owns a live sea anemone, an increasingly rare creature of immense value, and soon Acilde decides to steal it in order to pay for a dose of a magical elixir that will transform her into a man.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Many homeowners have been startled this spring by strange growths on juniper trees, sprouting orange tentacles like miniature sea anemones.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
  • Trousers were high-waisted and pleated, polo shirts and vests squared off and oversized, dresses enormous and boxy or halter-necked and dripping yards of almost weightless fringe, which waved like sea anemones on Saturn as the model walked.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Like related species such as jellyfish, corals and sea anemones, Portuguese men-of-war use tentacles with stinging capsules to capture prey, ranging from plankton to small fish.
    — David Fleshler, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In 2021 Cheng published a review of learning in Cnidaria—a group that includes jellyfish, corals, sea anemones, and more—and found only a handful of studies that tested for associative learning, all of which were on sea anemones.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2023

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