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

In the perpetual darkness beneath the leaflitter, sight is less important than touch, which they use to pinpoint prey including worms, spiders, scorpions, and even small reptiles and mice.

From Science Magazine

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