How to Use crustacean in a Sentence

crustacean

noun
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  • The state is home to most of the country’s supply of the classy crustaceans.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The crustacean will come with a mini loaf of nori bread to round out the meal.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Giant Isopods, a type of crustacean that lurks in the deep sea.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
  • All baleen whales eat tiny krill, crustaceans found in all the world's oceans.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 May 2017
  • Fish, squid, and crustaceans are their main food sources here.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • When hauled back up, the sides close from the top, catching the crustaceans inside.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • The crustaceans made up 92 percent of all life seen during the dives.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The purrs, croaks, and grunts of fish and crustaceans that live there and the sounds of healthy coral growing can echo through the water.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • From the shores, the penguins dive into the water to hunt for squid, crustaceans and small fish.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The coconut or robber crab is the largest land crustacean.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The tender crustaceans are sautéed in a white garlic sauce with a spice (spices?
    — The Know, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Most of the unnamed species are crustaceans and marine worms.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 1 June 2023
  • These are some of the most common of all trace fossils, and they were made by small crustaceans.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2012
  • The distinctive bill would prove to be useful as the chick grew to scoop up crustaceans and fish.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The business end of a cuttlefish is no place a small crustacean wants to be.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2013
  • The dish calls for sauteing the crustaceans in butter with garlic, adding a pinch of flour to thicken the gravy.
    — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The crawfish that feast on them were buried deep in the ground, and each of his traps only offered a dozen or so of the crustacean.
    — Phoebe Suy Gibson, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Siu’s soft-shell secret is a light touch that lets those crustaceans sing.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
  • Batfish use their pectoral, or side-fins, as 'legs' to 'crawl' on the seafloor to feed on worms, and small crustaceans and fish.
    — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • Father Mark Rand and son Luke Rand said the crustacean will not be eaten.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • One courageous crustacean has served up a reminder that where there’s a will, there’s a way.
    — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 4 June 2018
  • There’s also a stream just east of Elmwood’s back gate where the birds spear fish, crustaceans and frogs with their beaks.
    — Tracey Kaplan, The Mercury News, 3 June 2017
  • It's even got little legs that could stand up on a table like a crustacean.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2016
  • The fossils are that of an ancient crustacean and a squid, with a special cameo by a hungry shark.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 10 May 2021
  • Part of this is due to tiny crustaceans called copepods, a fatty food source for many of the salmon’s prey, such as herring.
    — Rocky Barker, idahostatesman, 8 July 2017
  • The crustaceans are cooked to order and take about 30 minutes to be delivered to the table.
    — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2017
  • But that's just putting makeup on a crustacean: The trailer for the film is way better than sitting through it.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Hawaii's spinner dolphins feast on fish and small crustaceans that surface from the ocean's depths at night.
    — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
  • All the species involved are generalists that eat crustaceans, fish and mollusks, but whoever was able to catch the prey got a meal.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The creature also had stalked eyes, like crustaceans, Lhéritier said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

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