crab
Example Sentences
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In Indonesia's Lembeh Strait at night, a tiny crab clings to a drifting jellyfish.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
Dinner was supposed to be crab brioche at a seafood restaurant mentioned on the BBC show “Remarkable Places to Eat.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
I usually get a bunch of salads and the crab and fennel soup.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026
Just then, a hermit crab came scuttling over.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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