How to Use sea serpent in a Sentence

sea serpent

noun

• The world of swimming — a stand-in here for society at large — is populated by the sort of sea serpent tattooed onto Ray's back.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
• The city was founded in 1519, when the Spanish still had one foot in the Middle Ages and captains would casually write in their ships’ logs about sea serpents, dragons and men with two heads.
  — Néstor Martí, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• Although many aspects of the series’ effects work hold up regardless of the venue — the attack of a sea serpent in the second episode was a highlight for me — other pieces feel overlit and flat.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• Galadriel and Halbrand are bickering in a way that suggests yearning glances could be close behind if they aren’t eaten by a sea serpent.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2022
• My family’s favorites include dinos, a Jeep and the giant sea serpent.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• His entire costume consists of a tiny red bathing suit, a swim cap and goggles, plus a massive sea serpent tattoo (designed by Avi Ram) encircling his body.
  — Christine Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2022
• With limbs added to the ancient sea serpent concept, the Pixar animating team found movement inspiration in sea iguanas.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
• Or the reptilian sea serpents that fishermen swear have menacingly popped up from the surface of the water, or the Sirens of Greek mythology who lured sailors to their deaths with their soothing, seductive songs.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2023
• Some of the stories are obviously fantastical, with demons, dragons, and sea serpents.
  — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2017
• In various 1,500-year-old texts, sea serpents, water horses, and water kelpie were all observed in Scotland's waterways.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
• There are a wide variety of supernatural monsters and cryptids that have been spotted in the state, from the Lake Michigan sea serpent to the wolfman of Chestnut Mountain to giant black panthers, according to folklore.
  — Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader, 30 Oct. 2017
• Ancient cartographers used drolleries—hybrid monsters, part whale, part sea serpent—to indicate the limits of their knowledge.
  — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• In the repertoire of Renaissance cartographers, fierce mythical beasts—from sea serpents to manticores—represented dangers of unknown worlds.
  — Michael Engelhard, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• In Jewish mythology, Leviathan was a primordial sea serpent, something malevolent, chaotic, uncontrollable, and beyond human comprehension.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 2 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024