How to Use cuttlefish in a Sentence

cuttlefish

noun

• Her whole speech was more confused than a cuttlefish trying to play parcheesi.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 July 2021
• But no one is quite sure how a cuttlefish brain takes what the eyes see and gets the muscles of the skin to copy it.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• Small muscles tug those sacs open or closed to rapidly change the cuttlefish’s color.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
• But cuttlefish and other cephalopods may be an intriguing test case.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• In other words, cuttlefish can’t perfectly match a coral reef.
  — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2019
• Though a far cry from a human, big-brained cuttlefish are good candidates for stereo vision.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2020
• Other types of cephalopods include squid, nautiloids and cuttlefish.
  — Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
• The new marshmallow test that the cuttlefish were given saw the cuttlefish put in a small area with crab meat.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 5 Dec. 2022
• The idea for the study arose because previous work has shown that cuttlefish can remember past events.
  — Sara Tabin, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Like an octopus, cuttlefish release a cloud of ink when threatened.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Or is cuttlefish in a five-spice sauce and a Bombay Sapphire gin more your fancy?
  — Shivani Vora, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
• An octopus, cuttlefish or squid is essentially a snail that swapped its shell for smarts.
  — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• An inky battle ensued, and the researchers caught it all on video—the first record of cuttlefish competing for a mate in the wild.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
• The master of disruptive coloration may be the cuttlefish, which can change the color and pattern of its skin.
  — Mary Bates, Animals, 24 Nov. 2020
• But the cuttlefish version appears to persist deep into their golden months.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2021
• The octopus brain is one of the most remarkable on Earth, and its cousin the cuttlefish is no slouch, either.
  — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
• Because the tint comes from a natural source, shades of sepia vary based on the local diets of the cuttlefish and where the pigment was made.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Lunch service starts this week, featuring dishes like crab with leeks and sweet herbs and a stew of cuttlefish, mussels and chickpeas.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• After weeks of foraging, the cuttlefish learned when and where certain food rewards were available.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
• The same sense of discovery rang true with cuttlefish — squid’s more brawny cousin — stir-fried in bouncy sections with vegetables in a twangy sour sauce.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• Another, more challenging forte of Venice is risotto al nero di seppia, which is made with the ink of cuttlefish.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
• Other species of jellyfish, angler fish, cuttlefish, and giant squid are also found in the midnight zone.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2021
• Our lineage split from that of cephalopods—the spineless class that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish—half a billion years ago.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
• In Japan, raw squid (or its cousin, cuttlefish) is a popular choice at sushi bars — beautiful white translucent slices draped over the sweet rice.
  — David Tanis, New York Times, 7 July 2017
• When placed in hunting scenarios, the cuttlefish that appeared to imitate hermit crabs captured twice as many fish as those that didn’t.
  — Hannah Lang, National Geographic, 8 June 2017
• Another lesson Kocabas learned from the cuttlefish is the need to portray texture.
  — Erika K Carlson, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2018
• The feat is the first time researchers have knocked out a gene in cephalopods, a class of invertebrates that includes octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus.
  — Lydia Rivers, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2021
• At night, the beams of our lights revealed slithering sea snakes, translucent cuttlefish, and striped orange and yellow nudibranchs, slugs that looked like jewels.
  — James Sturz, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• Gourdet’s dish, which included cuttlefish and crispy chickpeas, was praised, but the win went to Gillespie, for his polenta dish.
  — oregonlive, 5 June 2020
• However, the process of smelling or tasting is much less clear in cephalopods --a group of mollusks that includes octopuses, squids and cuttlefish -- living in the ocean.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020