| Steam rose from all directions, billowing into swirls, each a threatening tentacle ready to choke, suffocate, asphyxiate me. |
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| As he dodged to the side, he had to quickly move again as a tentacle came shooting towards him. |
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| A male produces spermatophores that it transfers to the female's genital pore by means of a specialized arm or tentacle. |
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| He might well be rechristened John Octopus, reflecting his unstoppable urge to enclasp any passing female in a sweaty tentacle. |
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| The male blanket octopus recently photographed by researchers was shown to clutch tentacle segments in his suckers, said Tregenza. |
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| The tentacle can be extended through the pore by hydrostatic pressure to make contact with the surrounding soil. |
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| Directly in front of each eye is a small pore leading to a sac that contains a tentacle. |
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| The Superhighway is seen as an interconnected global system of fibre-optic cable, reaching like a tentacle into every home. |
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| There is a large, branched tentacle above each eye, adding to the fish's somewhat comical appearance, and a very much smaller fringed tentacle on the nostril beneath each eye. |
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| It likes to put its tentacle up people's noses and suck out their bogies, which makes it very popular with wizard children. |
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| We have finally seen it: the limit, the endpoint, the finger on the end of the tentacle, of Simon Cowell's grip on the entertainment industry. |
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| Here she gives five compelling reasons for diving in and taking a tentacle. |
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| Was it luck, geometric prowess, or the helping tentacle of a visiting alien? |
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| They may grow to 9 m in length, measured from tip of tentacle to tip of tentacle. |
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| Once again to make the tentacle point outwards we have to take a closer look to it's axis. |
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| It uses its tentacles to do so, its tentacle becoming pink for the process. |
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| Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch. |
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| A male blanket octopus fills a modified tentacle with sperm, tears it off, presents it to its prospective mates, and then drifts off to certain death. |
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| A different note is played as you push each tentacle. |
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| Contact with a tentacle can prompt millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom, causing varying degrees of pain and swelling. |
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| I mean I did some work on Diablo II, Mephisto, mosquito demon, the tentacle that comes out of the water and stuff, and some items that you'll see in the inventory like Silks of the Victor. |
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| The EPA is supposed to base the requirement for each year on the projections of cellulosic fuel output made by another tentacle of the federal government, the Energy Information Administration. |
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| When he arrived at Hatfield he had yet to develop his hectocotylus, a modified tentacle that male octopuses use to deliver sperm to their mates. |
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| Like all Eshmuno® products, Eshmuno® S combines a tentacle structure for more effective binding of the target substances with the advantages of a new hydrophilic polyvinyl ether base matrix. |
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| The performance of both resins is based upon tentacle technology, which facilitates the access and binding of the biomolecule to the resin's functional groups. |
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| Victus, a Filipino squidder who said he had fished jumbos in Cuba and in the Bermuda Triangle, got his, a sloppy, shiny squirter, and dragged it across the deck by one tentacle, as if it were a stubborn cavewoman. |
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| The mouth is prolonged by a short ½sophagus, the stomodeum, terminating in the gastrovascular cavity or c½lenteron, itself prolonged by a narrow canal to the end of each tentacle. |
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| According to Charles Darwin, the contact of the legs of a small gnat with a single tentacle is enough to induce this response. |
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| In addition to tentacle movement, some species are able to bend their laminae to various degrees to maximize contact with the prey. |
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| With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder. |
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| Decades ago, Merck KGaA was the first to offer ion-exchange resins with an innovative tentacle structure that is able to bind target substances much more effectively. |
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| At the hypostomal boundary these stripes are aligned with the positions of tentacle insertion, hence are positioned between the hypostomal taeniolae. |
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| Recently antibutyrylcholinestrasic activity was detected in the crude venom extracted from the tentacle material of the Mediterranean jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca. |
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| Contact with a jellyfish tentacle can trigger millions of nematocysts to pierce the skin and inject venom, yet only some species' venom cause an adverse reaction in humans. |
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| A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink. |
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| Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away. |
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| Byrd described a new species of digene from larval metacercariae developing in a mother sporocyst found in a tentacle of the terrestrial snail Succinea retusa. |
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