How to Use starfish in a Sentence

starfish

noun

• The starfish brooch is huge and heavy, the size of the palm of your hand.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• The starfish looked real enough to climb out of the case and march up my arm. . . .
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Kids can look for starfish, snails, and anemones in the tide pools that form among the rocks at the north end of the beach.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Murthy is that guy on the beach, throwing starfish back in the ocean one at a time.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
• The worst thing about crown-of-thorns starfish is their appetite.
  — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 4 June 2020
• And on top of them was a bustling menagerie of worms, starfish, snails, crabs, shrimp, clams, and corals.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
• The girls in an Iraqi village wake up, each with a starfish in her hair.
  — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
• The man came to a halt on his back with his limbs splayed, looking like a beached starfish.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Smithsonian, 24 Jan. 2018
• The jeweler that created the starfish was the House of Boivin, which opened in the 1890s.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• The starfish seen sitting idly by the sponge belongs to the genus Chondraster.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021
• The starfish glowed orange, and dolphins frolicked in the waves next to us.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• Then raise your free leg out to the side and your free arm toward the ceiling, like a starfish.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 20 May 2021
• In large numbers, crown-of-thorns starfish can mow down wide swaths of coral reef.
  — National Geographic, 3 Mar. 2020
• All starfish don’t look the same, but this one became a breakout star.
  — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 3 July 2019
• Cabrinovic tells Pavid that the mass stranding of starfish, at least, isn’t a concern for the species.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
• At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish, sand dollars, and crabs.
  — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• And this child is running around picking up the starfish and throwing them one at a time back in the ocean.
  — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Her high-heeled shoes were decked out with starfish, shells, pearls and other accents that evoked the ocean.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 7 Sep. 2021
• Both the starfish and sponge shown in the image live in a deep-sea habitat where no light penetrates.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2021
• Porcelain crabs scuttle by tiny starfish clinging to the blades.
  — Shane Gross; Text By Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2020
• Guests here will find eels, starfish, and colorful coral.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2023
• Hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface, some starfish make their own light.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Display goods that could have been found on a walk along the beach, like seashells, driftwood, sand dollars, starfish, and sea glass ...
  — Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• For some animals, that means a brain, but starfish don’t have that organ.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• Researchers found the starfish in the remains of a round structure called the Cuauhxicalco.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022
• The Octonauts have to hold back coral-eating starfish in this special.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2020
• Getting my printer/scanner to work is like trying to train a starfish to jump through hoops.
  — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 13 Mar. 2021
• There, scientists said, the reef fell prey to an outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish, which feed solely on live coral.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• The soldier involves placing your arms down close and parallel to the body, while the starfish entails putting your arms near your head.
  — Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
• But like starfish glomming onto rocks, the metaphor took hold in the scientific and public imagination.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024