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
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The giant ugly sea monster Cetus was closing in on a beach where Princess Andromeda was chained to a rock by her own parents, Cassiopeia and Cepheus, the king and queen of ancient Ethiopia.
—Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
She’s covered in body paint and glitter like the rest of the cast (there is an underwater sea monster theme, naturally), but in her uniform, behind the counter—nearly unchanged.
—Lauren Morrow
september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Watch The Incredibles films on Disney+ Luca Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer) are sea monsters who feel stifled in the water.
—Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Take Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), a 1,500-foot-long coil of earth and black basalt jutting into Utah’s Great Salt Lake like some prehistoric sea monster taking a nap.
—Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 4 Sep. 2025
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
She’s covered in body paint and glitter like the rest of the cast (there is an underwater sea monster theme, naturally), but in her uniform, behind the counter—nearly unchanged.
—Lauren Morrow
september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Watch The Incredibles films on Disney+ Luca Luca (Jacob Tremblay) and Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer) are sea monsters who feel stifled in the water.
—Sydni Ellis, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Take Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), a 1,500-foot-long coil of earth and black basalt jutting into Utah’s Great Salt Lake like some prehistoric sea monster taking a nap.
—Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 4 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sea monster
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“Sea monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20monster. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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