How to Use sea star in a Sentence
sea star
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In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
—National Geographic, 18 June 2018
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The ochre sea star makes its home in rocky tide pools all along the California coast.
—Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
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Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
—Outside Online, 26 June 2024
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Is your toddler sleeping in your bed, spread out like a sea star between you and your partner?
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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The vehicle had encountered a bright orange Brisingid, a type of deep-sea sea star, clinging to a rock on the seafloor.
—New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
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See above for photos of several new and rare sea stars, plus deep-sea tubeworms.
—Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
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The disease, which affects about 20 sea star species, is horror-movie gruesome.
—Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
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For instance, sea star wasting syndrome has been killing these predators of sea urchins.
—Andria Greene, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
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Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
—Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
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With mass numbers of sea stars dead, the urchins proliferated, chomping their way through the kelp forests.
—Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
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The sea star is known as a Chondraster and is characterized by its five arms covered with tiny suckers.
—Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
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Science One of the world’s largest sea stars is on track to receive Endangered Species Act protections.
—Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
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After the purple urchin’s main predator, the sunflower sea star, died off from a wasting disease, the urchins ate up the kelp that remained.
—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021
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At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
—Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
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The organization is also trying to find ways to revive the sea urchins’ predator - the sea star.
—Lucy Sherriff, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
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Some have gotten lucky, having never been hit by storms or swarms of ravenous sea stars.
—National Geographic, 18 June 2018
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Warmer waters also mean that coral-eating sea stars survive longer, lay more eggs, and cause more damage.
—National Geographic, 18 June 2018
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Most closely related to sea urchins, sea stars (aka starfish), sea lilies, and sand dollars, these bottom-dwellers range from as small as one inch long up to six feet.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
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The film has maintained its support from its sea stars, and audiences are taking their tails to see the film over Memorial Day weekend.
—Vulture, 27 May 2023
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Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar sea stars.
—National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2016
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The world’s second-largest sea star is literally melting away.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
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Otters and sea lions bask on the jetty; pumpkin orange sea stars are visible in the clear water, and cormorants and gulls circle above the rock.
—Dallas News, 4 May 2020
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Global warming and coastal development threaten the sunflower sea star, which lives in tidal and sub-tidal areas along the West Coast.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
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Deep coral reefs provide habitat for sharks, swordfish, sea stars, octopus, shrimp and many other kinds of fish, the scientists said.
—Christina Larson, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
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Tanks are filled with fish and sea creatures; brave kids can gently (with two fingers) touch lobsters, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
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Of course, other sea star eyes may be better than those of Linckia laevigata—some species, like the crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci), move quickly to chase down prey.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2014
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When a male sand-sifting sea star in the coastal waters of Australia reaches out a mating arm to its nearest neighbor, sometimes that neighbor is also male.
—Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 3 Dec. 2020
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The die-off was triggered in 2013 when millions of sea stars along the coast of California withered and died from a mysterious wasting disease.
—Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 Feb. 2020
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The Haystack Rock Awareness Program conducts similar surveys for sea stars and marine debris throughout the year.
—Brenna Visser, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Mar. 2018
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Beyond just sea stars, the findings may help scientists understand how new animal shapes and structures evolve in other branches of the tree of life, Oliveri says.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
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