limpet

Example Sentences

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Limpet evicted, Lima took out an iPhone and began to download data, including hourly temperature measurements recorded over the past year.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023

His alter-ego would scare few: Meticulous-Man, or perhaps the Ginger Limpet.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2013

One of these, the Limpet, you can always be sure of finding at low tide; indeed, there are so many Limpets on the rocks that it would be hard not to see them.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

It can be used as a sucker; and it is this which enables the Limpet to cling so firmly to its rock.

From On the Seashore by Smith, R. Cadwallader

They both turned their eyes on me as I stood on the door-step pulling the bell handle, and I saw a stupid grin overspread the countenance of the Limpet.

From A Girl Among the Anarchists by Meredith, Isabel