How to Use cephalopod in a Sentence

cephalopod

noun

• In 2015, Albertin led a team that sequenced the first genome of a cephalopod.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2020
• But now there’s proof these cephalopods sometimes hang out in small cities.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2017
• Out of the many bizarre stories that have come out of 2017, one of the most bizarre might be this bit of cephalopod intrigue.
  — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 1 Nov. 2017
• In the case of the cephalopod, that action changes how light is reflected off its skin.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• This dashing cephalopod is on eBay! 100% of his sale will go straight to @mealsonwheelsamerica to help out folks in need of food in these weird times.
  — oregonlive, 25 Apr. 2020
• And since 2012, he's been looking at the vision of cephalopods, the class of mollusks of which cuttlefish are a part.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
• The eight legs of the cephalopod represented the eight games the team needed to win in order to win the Stanley Cup.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 16 Apr. 2018
• That’s partly because records of imports of cephalopods to the United States are spotty and out of date.
  — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• Critters from sea otters to cephalopods have been observed using tools in the wild.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2018
• These soft-bodied, golf ball-size cephalopods don’t have much to protect them from predators like seals, eels and fish.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Feb. 2019
• The tentacles of the massive cephalopod left golf ball-size suction marks on the skin of the shark, a seven-foot oceanic whitetip.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, National Geographic, 5 June 2020
• In a 2017 study, some of the same researchers found that cephalopods extensively edit their RNA.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
• Somehow the bird carved out a niche for itself, chasing fish and squishy cephalopods along the ancient coasts of North America and parts of Asia.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• Both sides of the cephalopod's personality are on display in this video from the BBC.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2013
• Both are extinct species of small cephalopod mollusks and are in abundance on Charmouth Beach.
  — David Shaftel, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• If not, will Spain continue to be so adoring toward the cephalopod ?
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2010
• In the last piece of the puzzle, the researchers found evidence of this same Z chromosome in the Nautilus, a very ancient cephalopod.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2024
• During the Professor’s party, the two sneak away for a smoke and the Captain confesses his aversion to cephalopods.
  — Terry Nguyen, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
• After the cephalopod’s unfortunate run-in in the wild, a vendor caught and sold him to researchers in New York in early 2021.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
• This includes the pups of other seals, such as crabeater, southern elephant, and Antarctic fur seals, as well as fish, cephalopods like squid, and even krill.
  — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• By matching their skin to the background behind them, these cephalopods blend in almost seamlessly.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2020
• Such noise has already been shown to have adverse effects in fish, whales and other marine mammals as well as cephalopods.
  — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• To start your Hall of Fishes tour with a bang, stop by the Pacific Octopus tank, where the curious cephalopod spends a lot of time pressed up against the glass.
  — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 May 2017
• The cephalopod brain — the largest of any invertebrate — is still something of a mystery to scientists.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2016
• The researchers wanted to follow up on that earlier work to see what factors might drive RNA editing in cephalopods.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
• An enormous 14-foot long squid has washed up on the shores of Wellington, New Zealand, prompting images of the colossal cephalopod to go viral.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2018
• The first photos of the cephalopod were taken by Japanese scientists in 2004, and the first video eight years later, also near Japan.
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 24 June 2019
• Squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods are on a very different part of the tree of life from vertebrates.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
• However, as human taste for these cephalopods grows, it’s become a problem to meet demand.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• The live-action film sees Ursula traversing her dark, fire-laden lair with the same strong, smooth and sometimes sudden movements of real-life cephalopods.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024