sea monster

noun

plural sea monsters

: a mythical creature of usually immense size that lives underwater and is traditionally regarded as a threat to ships and mariners

All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.—

Seamus Heaney

Examples of sea monster in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are other moments where Red and Chloe come face to face with sea monsters or narrowly escape danger and magic spells with evil twists. —

Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 July 2024 The ship, named the Charybdis after a mythological Greek sea monster, won’t set sail until next year, potentially after one of the most pro-green energy administrations in history has left the White House. —

Brian Cheung, NBC News, 30 June 2024 What comes next is a bunch of dystopian things happening like washed up sea monsters and alien lasers trying to trap them. —

Angel Diaz, Billboard, 28 June 2024 In southwestern Australia, an unknown predator with a taste for great white and mako sharks ignites fears of sea monsters in the abyss. —

Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for sea monster

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