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

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

Paying roughly $6,500 for an 11-night journey in the Caribbean, he relished spending hours at the spa and having crab legs delivered to his room every afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

Sunny had already been staring and shrieking at the figure for some time when Klaus looked up from the spiny crab he was examining, and saw it too.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket