The poor little crabs had probably been stunned, or perhaps killed, by the keeper, for they made no resistance when the octopi fastened upon them their long suckers in a death-grasp.
The octopi fought with each other over the possession of the crabs, and for some moments there was a terrible waving to and fro of black suckers fully two yards in length.
Why the octopi that the people cook and sell in the streets here now, are ever so much horrider.
In order to live he needs rather to put himself on the offensive, to inspire respect in devouring monsters, especially in the octopi that are seeking as prey his trunk and hairy claws, exposed to locomotion outside his tower.
Probably the octopi have separate hatcheries where they raise them for food.
The octopi craft appeared directly in the middle of the dial.
Glancing below he saw a great, dark, many-fingered cloud dropping rapidly away, and was glad to know that the octopi could not follow him into the lesser pressures above without their suits.
Grasping her opportunity, the octopi submarine remained motionless, steadily dousing the approaching American craft with her silent violet ray and driving the temperature in the control room to even greater heights.
And not only octopi--but octopi sheathed in metal-scaled armor!
The octopi craft kept doggedly after the NX-1, no matter how often and effectually the sweating cook's reckless hands prevented her getting the heat ray home.
It was obvious that the octopi craft had been alarmed by the terrific explosion.
Then the octopistruck with another weapon, in an effort to dull the spearing beams of white.
It was then that he guessed the true purpose of the metal suits the octopi wore--to protect their bodies against the lesser pressure near the surface of the sea.
He decided that the ship was used for rapidly transporting large numbers of the octopi to distant regions, and also for a weapon of offense and defense.
The octopi ship had grasped them with another of its hawser arms, and was pulling them away.
Then the exit port opened and several metal-clad octopiswam out.
It would only be a question of time before their batteries gave out, or the swarms of octopi crushed in on the struggling crew.
The choice between the octopi and retreat stared him in the face.
The king of the octopi was still writhing in ever weakening struggles, but the water was halfway up his body.
All the cuttlefishes and octopi are also without the hard calcareous shell.
In the mussels and clams the head is not at all set off from the rest of the body, the cuttlefishes and octopi have no foot, the slugs have no shell.
She announced to the Artist and me that the octopi had gone over to the African coast to keep cool until next winter, and that we had better all go to Paris to do the same.
Polpi alla Luciana are small octopi stewed in an earthern pot with oil, tomatoes, chilli, and red wine.
Along the roads were Hawaiian huts with octopi drying on the porches, beside the reclining figures of the strong providers of the family, resting up, no doubt, from the task of catching and killing the octopi by hitting the squid's heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octopi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
