sea monster
noun
plural sea monsters
: a mythical creature of usually immense size that lives underwater and is traditionally regarded as a threat to ships and mariners
All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.—
Seamus Heaney
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Before Hamill could even read, her father was telling her tales of brave Odysseus and his confrontations with sea monsters and cyclops.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Definitely the gods — specifically that jerk Poseidon, who once sent a sea monster to raze Troy because its king Laomedon refused to pay him for building the city walls.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
As such, it’s been a bit more challenging to study this sea monster.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
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Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
Definitely the gods — specifically that jerk Poseidon, who once sent a sea monster to raze Troy because its king Laomedon refused to pay him for building the city walls.
—Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
As such, it’s been a bit more challenging to study this sea monster.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sea monster
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“Sea monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20monster. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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