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• The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.From the entry denizen
• Octopuses and squids are examples of animals that have blue blood.From the entry blue blood
• The squid wrapped its slithy tentacles around its prey.From the entry slithy
• We ask for side plates, and share a sheep ricotta ravioli, and a casarecce with squid ragu.2026 January 31, Danny Leigh, “Lunch with the FT: Riz Ahmed”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry casarecce
• We tried a lot of seasonal fish like sayori, silverfish and some squid.2025 April 29, Kenji Hall, quoting Sonoko Sakai, “[The 25 Essential Seafood Dishes to Eat in Tokyo] 22. The Sushi at Osushi Isobe”, in T…. From the entry sayori
• Ancestral vampyropods diverged from the ancestors of squid way back in the Triassic.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry vampyropod
• No matter what I did to the squid, it was a tough chew.2015, Jim "Sunny" Edwards, A Footprint in the Sand: The Fishing Edge, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry chew
• Still, there was nothing that I could see to make the squid curl when cooked.2015, Jim "Sunny" Edwards, A Footprint in the Sand: The Fishing Edge, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry chew
• They grow fat and strong on bunker, squid and, cannibalistically, themselves.2009 August 23, Sam Sifton, “Something Fishy”, in New York Times. From the entry cannibalistically
• That got me a wordless glare that would’ve fricasséed a squid.2005, David Wishart, Food for the Fishes, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN. From the entry fricassée
• Connie should probably be Queen, or maybe King of saucers and squids for obvious reasons.2004 April 17, polar bear, “Nine.”, in alt.slack (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jan 2026. From the entry doctrix
• The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications. From the entry squad
• The book is a great misfavor to the mysterious, exciting , and even elegant squid.1992, Children's Literature Review - Volume 28, page 53. From the entry misfavor
• They are suction feeders, drinking in their meals rather than eating them, and they’re also teuthivorous, meaning they primarily eat squid.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
• When the squid (or other cephalopod) accelerates, the statolith is pressed back in its “seat” like a person in a car.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry statolith
• Pygmy squid spend most of their lives stuck to blades of seaweed with an absolutely fantastic little glue gland.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry pygmy squid
• While axial ganglia have not been identified in adult squid, these paralarval structures could be similar to octopus axial ganglia.2015 September 10, “An Unexpected Diversity of Photoreceptor Classes in the Longfin Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry paralarval
• Set a large pot of sea-salty water (¼ cup salt, 1 gallon water) to boil for the squid ink pasta.2013, John Gorham, Liz Crain, “Squid Ink Pasta”, in Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. Or, the Making, Breaking, and Riding of a Bull…. From the entry sea-salty
• If a Singaporean gets frustrated at your stupidity, he can scold you for being blur as sotong (clueless as a squid).2002 July 22, Hwee Hwee Tan, “A War of Words Over ‘Singlish’”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2025. From the entry blur
• Were the missing crewmen kippered by a squid?2001, Rachel Wright, The True Mystery of the Mary Celeste, page 27. From the entry kipper
• "That cumulogranite might've just put the fear of God into that squid pilot chasing us," the OSO reminded him.2001, Dale Brown, Battle Born. From the entry cumulogranite
• “I want three sashimis and one large squid tempura.1979, Jim Harrison, chapter 4, in Legends of the Fall, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry sashimi
• The birds find their own squid, although, after a long, squidless search, an individual may join other feeding albatrosses briefly.1974, Wonders of the world of the albatross, page 51. From the entry squidless
• "An' he bes free times as old as herself," he wailed, " an' ugly as a squid !1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353. From the entry bes
• The Horror had besides eight or ten long tentacles studded with suckers like those of the giant squid or devil-fish.1913, “The Deep-Sea Kraken”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume 72, page 302. From the entry devilfish
• Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry galangal
• The Changchun COVID-19 prevention office said the squid had been imported from Russia by a company in Hunchun city and brought to the provincial capital.2020 September 20, Shivani Singh, Sophie Yu, “Coronavirus found on imported squid packaging in China”, in Philippa Fletcher, editor…. From the entry Hunchun
• I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry squad
• In some squid species, the pen rachis flares out into wings on either side, and the tip of the rachis grows into a thick cone.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry rachis
• So if you dry the squid compulsively, at least by my noncompulsive standards, and you cook it in small batches, you solve the problem.2009 August 5, Mark Bittman, “Solving Squid Spatter (and No, Not the Ink)”, in New York Times. From the entry noncompulsive
• Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water.2006, Fiona Doyle, “Wet Season Time”, in On Country: Stories of Nyrlotte, Univ. of Queensland Press, page 15. From the entry tiggy
• They are waiting for their parents to return from the sea with cropfuls of fish, squid, krill, or whatever else passes for breakfast.2000, Bernard Stonehouse, The Last Continent: Discovering Antarctica, page 105. From the entry cropful
• For flying squid, designated observers will measure the mantle lengths of 30 flying squid randomly sampled from a single observed section each day.1994, Richard L. Wallace, editor, The Marine Mammal Commission Compendium of Selected Treaties... on Marine Resources, Wildlife, and the…. From the entry flying squid
• Highlights include deep-fried fishballs and squidballs (mashed fish or squid blended with wheat flour), grilled pig intestines and adidas – chicken's feet, named after the sports-shoe manufacturer.2013 October 10, David Dalton, Stephen Keeling, The Rough Guide to the Philippines, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN. From the entry adidas
• The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 229. From the entry vampire squid
• Then one day his mother sent him a wooden box with dried squid from the Kangwon province of South Korea, which is famous for its seafood.2006 October 15, Ylan Q. Mui, “Tastes From Home”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2024, Business. From the entry Kangwon
• There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry tanner
• Let us admit at once that the author has made out a case against the zeroist who uses words as a squid uses its color-sac — to becloud vision.1929, Printers' Ink - Volume 147, page 154. From the entry zeroist
• I prefer to have a range of thee different sizes and colours in squid jigs, but you could also try using squid fish spikes and put a pilly on it.2011, Gary Brown, How to Catch Australia's Favourite Saltwater Fish, page 62. From the entry pilly

Meaning of squid

1. noun Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles.
2. noun A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
3. noun A sailor in the Navy.

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How do you use squid in a sentence?

Squid is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.”

What is a short sentence with squid?

“Were the missing crewmen kippered by a squid?”

What does squid mean?

Squid means any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles.