How to Use sea star in a Sentence

sea star

noun

• Where had sea star wasting disease come from?
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• The area's tidepools are home to sea stars, chitons, crabs and limpets.
  — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
• Maybe sea star wasting disease was caused by algae?
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• His images show sea stars that look deflated.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• The base of the cape will offer views of sea stars, anemones, barnacles, and more.
  — Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2025
• Could it be transmitted from sea star to sea star or spread through aquaculture?
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
• These sea stars can measure more than 3 feet from tip to tip and appear in a range of colors.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
• Does the same bacteria affect other species of sea stars?
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
• But researchers working on sea star wasting disease simply didn’t have much to work from.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• In the end, the cause of sea star wasting disease wasn’t discovered in a lab, but in a meeting.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• Rosario Beach is known for its tide pools, which teem with marine life such as sea stars, crabs, and sea cucumbers.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2026
• California’s kelp had endured warming before, but this time, the loss of the sea stars proved fatal.
  — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
• Both healthy and sick sea stars carried a ton of Vibrio bacteria—which was expected, since the genus is found all over the ocean.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• Definitely don't remove a live sea star from the water and carry it home—you're guaranteed to kill it.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
• More accurately known as sea stars, these invertebrates can end up on dry land after a storm or sudden tidal change deposits them on the sand.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
• There's also a chunky sea star called the Atheraster umbo, and a translucent worm called the Laetmonice murrayae.
  — Adam England, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
• In a fluke of history, the scientists were working to stop the spread of a deadly virus in sea stars at the same time the world was dealing with the pandemic.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
• Could it be transmitted from the mollusks that sea stars eat, the way people get sick after eating oysters infected with a vibrio pathogen?
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
• Every few minutes Baya would dive down to point out a foot-long sea cucumber, or a cluster of blue, black, and yellow sea stars scattered on the seabed.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
• The disease, known as sea star wasting syndrome, has plagued more than 20 species since it was first detected in 2013.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
• In some cases, sea stars disintegrate entirely.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
• With sunflower sea stars suddenly all but gone from their home range, sea urchin numbers exploded, and the hungry urchin hordes descended upon kelp forests.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• Only sea stars injected with Vibrio pectenicida, or with material from sick sea stars, showed signs of disease.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• The loss of so many led to a population explosion of sea urchins — the prickly species that sea stars commonly eat — along the West Coast over the past decade.
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
• The rest died from sea star wasting disease, providing the conclusive evidence the team needed, Prentice says.
  — Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025
• Field testing revealed that the bacteria was present in sick sea stars and had also been around during a 2016 outbreak in Alaska.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• The marine biologist has studied sea stars since the 1970s, and the animals had always seemed more solid a bet than others in the ocean.
  — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 6 June 2026
• When sea star wasting disease appeared in 2013, Hewson’s lab took the lead on finding the microbe behind the epidemic.
  — JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
• Measuring roughly 55 feet long and 18 feet wide, the float featured a dense seascape of corals, fish and oversize sea stars, some spanning 4 feet in diameter.
  — Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• The tide pools around Haystack and elsewhere along Cannon Beach are extraordinary, with colorful sea stars, anemones, crabs, snails, coral, sponges, and sea slugs.
  — Kara Williams, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026