Sentences with phrase «like octopuses»

Inspired by cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish, which change their skin textures for camouflage, researchers fabricated a stretchy material that inflates into various 3 - D shapes and flattens back out.

They shed their shells and became speedy, like squid, or they became clever and elusive, like octopuses and cuttlefish.

Comino, the island home to the iconic Blue Lagoon «swimming pool,» has the lion's share of underwater attractions including caves, colorful corals and sponges and aquatic life like octopus and barracuda fish.

The rise of colonialism, like an octopus, clasped under its tentacles an unsuspecting and indolent Orient.

It disconnects you and your baby while feeding and it is so frustrating to feel like an octopus trying to hold and position a baby, keep your breast in place, keep the milk from dripping everywhere, and then have to worry about adjusting a blanket or cover!

It wouldn't smell this bad again until my sons started peeing on their own and wielding their wieners like octopus sprinklers.

Did you know my kid likes octopus carpaccio with balsamic vinegar and sea salt?

But what if that surgeon's assistant was less like a standard robot — and more like an octopus?

I never actually met someone who liked an octopus until you!

I like to rotate a selection of cotton tees, and I prefer they have some personality — like this octopus / Kraken?

Six years ago a NASA probe brought back samples of alien life, but when it crash - landed the probe «infected» a large swathe of Mexico with seeds that grew into enormous creatures that look like octopi (that's plural for octopus) which walk on land.

«This program is like an octopus; [it reaches out] and helps a lot of things, such as tutoring and children's self - esteem,» said Francine Deal, principal of Samuel W. Pennypacker Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Arne Duncan may still see himself as a champion of bipartisan reform, but he's now governing more like an octopus than a cabinet secretary.

This is because the tumor is like an octopus - it has unseen tentacles that reach out far from the visible tumor.

When molested it, like the octopus, gives off a cloud of purple ink as a defense mechanism.

7) Snorkeling at night lets the visitor see bioluminescent plankton and nocturnal animals like octopi and eels.

Small creatures like octopi, sea turtles, and eels congregate on the vibrant reefs, where healthy hard and soft corals grow to massive sizes.

As noted in my previous review, Japan Crate's presentation was already on fleek; they packed their treats in a bright, branded box and included a full - color cheat sheet of the contents so you'd know the difference between what looked like octopus and what tasted like octopus.

If you look behind me it looks like a octopus; but if my research is right, this is a Hyrulean lifeform known as an Octorok.

This monster looks kinda like an octopus, but it shoots rocks out of its mouth.

Here, DiBenedetto goes full William Baziotes — channeling the great under - sung Abstract Expressionist who specialized in fuzzy fields and mythological - like beings contained in fields of flushed color — and gives us great fiery paintings colonized by creatures and forms with effluvia, faces, feet, head dresses, and resemble oxidizing coral reefs of original vision, with little hints of curving helicopter blades and mollusk - like octopus legs.

Maybe claws would be the better metaphor, because Vevers regularly populates her paintings with giant lobsters who couple with women, like the octopus in Hokusai's 1814 woodcut «The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.»

They are not welcome - they are bulldozing our business and they are like an octopus that wraps their arms around you.»

The crabs, thanks to better conditions in the sea and less predators like the octopus, are reproducing more rapidly than previous years.

JP, I submit, is like this octopus.

Riddle: When is a woman most like an octopus?

We've got amazing flock lamps, beautiful embellished textural cushions and lots of animal — esque things that really make you smile and feel happy; like octopus tealight holders and incredibly little wall hooks.

* Pulled out the big old - oil furnace that looked like an octopus and installed a high efficiency gas furnace.

Not exact matches

Because octopuses have no bones, they are able to squeeze through some incredibly small spaces, like a tiny vent in the side of a fishing boat that Chance Miller of Millers Landing Alaska caught on film.

But I figure he's ordered more than my liking of fried octopus, so he can eat a salad or two.

You will have to tenderize the hell out of it before cooking, like people from the Mediterranean smash their octopus against beautiful sea rocks right after being caught, or massage them until their arms are floppy and relaxed.

Once your octopus has cooled down slice each arm into 1/4 inch to 1/4 inch slices, discard the center and slice the head like if you where slicing a calamari, or into dice, what ever you prefer.

And don't worry about salting the water, octopus is salty like an oyster.

The menu is made up of shareable small plates like musakhan rolls, octopus and mussels, as well as a few larger entrées including grilled black bass and duck breast.

Their dishes highlight cuisine from all over the world, like matzo ball ramen and kung pao octopus head.

Renee taught me how to like smoked trout, she opened my world to octopus and made me a preacher of the wonders of oysters.

Make like you're in Italy and snack on hand - shaved Serrano ham, tender octopus terrine, and free potato chips while sipping sherry - and - limoncello drinks.

A dim - sum cart circles the room, and when the server asks if you'd like any of the small plates — such as Red Fife brioche with Berkshire sausage, octopus with charred tomatoes, or smoked - beet granita — your answer best be yes.

Another night, I fell for the grilled octopus: It arrives like a showpiece, piled on bitter greens, with dollops of charred avocado cream and custardy smashed potatoes hidden underneath.

We started off pairing refreshing cocktails with unique seafood dishes like tender octopus carpaccio at the Japanese - inspired raw bar Other Mama.

«We went out to some restaurant and they had me eat some octopus,» Smith Jr. told the New York Daily News, «like an actual octopus tentacle.

Michael Phelps looks like he fought an octopus.

Some moms report that they felt like they had an octopus in their abdomen.

-LSB-...] Pumping while nursing might seem really hard to do at first, like you'd need as many arms as an octopus to make it happen.

Look for baby books with real photos or realistic drawings of animals and toy animals that actually look like animals (as opposed to the singing octopus pirate previously mentioned).

-LSB-...] Up until today, setting up a playard can feel like wrestling with an octopus — getting all the latches in the right positions at exactly the right time can really be a struggle.

My Aunt Colleen and I had these same matching white octopus hooks and I knew she liked them.

When I decided to co-sleep, I discovered that, in reality, co-sleeping is more like trying to sleep while a drunk octopus pees on you and pokes you in the eye.

Choose from organic baby toys like starfish or surfboard baby rattles as well as knitted dolls and whale and octopus organic baby blankets.

In the past, setting up a playard could feel like wrestling with an octopus — getting all the latches in the right positions at exactly the right time can really be a struggle.