scorpion

Example Sentences

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He follows up with scores off headers, off bicycle kicks, and even off something I’d never heard of called a “scorpion kick.”

From New York Times

Romanucci and civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who also represents Nichols’ family, called on the police chief to disband the department’s so-called scorpion unit focused on street crime.

From Washington Times

At least one scholar has identified the shells as dead scorpions — a symbol of “evil defeated” — but they might just as well be shrimp shells, the remains of a humble Seville meal.

From New York Times

The figures include a few human subjects, but mostly they’re historic and mythic beasts, some made to scale, others wildly magnified, like the Subaru-sized scorpion.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1854, there was one about how a live scorpion was found on a piece of driftwood off a steamer boat in Cincinnati.

From New York Times