How to Use sea star in a Sentence

sea star

noun

• In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• After the sickness, a lot of sea star species did start to come back.
  — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 Apr. 2025
• The ochre sea star makes its home in rocky tide pools all along the California coast.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• Check out sea stars in Crystal Cove State Park’s tide pools and spend the night in a rustic cottage.
  — Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
• Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• Roughly 45 minutes of swimming among coral, fish and blue sea stars passed in what felt like 10.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• Open the shell to reveal the sea star and watch the necklace light up (three AA batteries included).
  — Quincy Bulin, Parents, 22 Nov. 2024
• Is your toddler sleeping in your bed, spread out like a sea star between you and your partner?
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• The vehicle had encountered a bright orange Brisingid, a type of deep-sea sea star, clinging to a rock on the seafloor.
  — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• See above for photos of several new and rare sea stars, plus deep-sea tubeworms.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
• The disease, which affects about 20 sea star species, is horror-movie gruesome.
  — Todd Woody, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
• For instance, sea star wasting syndrome has been killing these predators of sea urchins.
  — Andria Greene, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• The rarest sighting of the day, however, was a giant starfish known as a sunflower sea star — its 20 or so arms can span three feet.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
• Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• As part of the Snapshot Cal Coast project, there will be a weekend dedicated to searching for sea stars on June 21-22.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2025
• This comes in the form of five arms for most starfish, although some species have even more — adult sunflower sea stars, for example, can have up to 24 arms.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2025
• With mass numbers of sea stars dead, the urchins proliferated, chomping their way through the kelp forests.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2019
• In ecosystems, keystone species—like beavers or sea stars—are small but essential.
  — Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• The sea star is known as a Chondraster and is characterized by its five arms covered with tiny suckers.
  — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 31 July 2021
• Science One of the world’s largest sea stars is on track to receive Endangered Species Act protections.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Without sea stars to balance the food web, urchin numbers have exploded.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
• After the purple urchin’s main predator, the sunflower sea star, died off from a wasting disease, the urchins ate up the kelp that remained.
  — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2021
• At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
  — Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• The organization is also trying to find ways to revive the sea urchins’ predator - the sea star.
  — Lucy Sherriff, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
• Some have gotten lucky, having never been hit by storms or swarms of ravenous sea stars.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• Warmer waters also mean that coral-eating sea stars survive longer, lay more eggs, and cause more damage.
  — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
• Most closely related to sea urchins, sea stars (aka starfish), sea lilies, and sand dollars, these bottom-dwellers range from as small as one inch long up to six feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• The film has maintained its support from its sea stars, and audiences are taking their tails to see the film over Memorial Day weekend.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• Feather stars are echinoderms, like the more familiar sea stars.
  — National Geographic, 9 Dec. 2016
• The world’s second-largest sea star is literally melting away.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023