How to Use tentacular in a Sentence

tentacular

adjective

• Carillion has had a tentacular reach in Britain, not just in the running of schools and prisons, but in building hospitals, railways and thousands of homes for the Ministry of Defense.
  — Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Yet no firm can match these tech titans’ tentacular reach into the everyday lives of Chinese consumers.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• My film isn’t about the attacks but rather about the tentacular investigation that was carried on by this special brigade to track down the two masterminds behind the attacks for five days.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 27 May 2022
• Also in residence is a thing—a tentacular beast, which at first is dimly discernible, wine-red, glistening in a dark corner.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021
• Yi’s floating forms respond to the air in Turbine Hall in unpredictable ways, with each of the tentacular, bulbous creatures programmed to display its own set of behaviors.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• The series also chronicles the tentacular investigation launched in the aftermath of the tragedy.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 22 July 2022
• For starters, the dreadful contemplation of showers of metallic-bead goo spewing from a hole on the surface of the moon and forming tentacular monsters of deadly dexterity is both ludicrous and eerie—what is in there?
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
• As Baby Groot’s companions battle the tentacular horror in the background, we’re treated to the delightful spectacle of the mini-veggie juking his way through the opening credits.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
• The town is dominated by a tentacular organization, ominously called only the Company, that wants to take over Reza’s land.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 June 2022
• The White Spikes are genuinely terrifying beasts — ghostly, tentacular, giant insectoids with beak-like mouths filled with fangs, who swarm like supersonic zombie flies.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 July 2021
• The Chinese state relies upon private enterprise to implement social credit and extend its tentacular reach.
  — Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
• His vision of the power of statecraft, from its tentacular surveillance to its carceral system, is a dreadful, fatalistic realism that shadows the romance of individualistic outlaws with the bureaucratic grid above the grid.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• Financial entanglement was only one aspect of slavery’s tentacular reach.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024