limpet
Example Sentences
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Norris clung to Verstappen like a limpet and then overtook him with imperious ease before the first pit stops, cruising off into the middle distance thereafter.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2024
Lima opted to use a limpet shell instead, creating what he called “robolimpets.”
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023
Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers.
From Washington Times • Aug. 3, 2021
Cyber Command had decided to target an Iranian spy group that had supported limpet mine attacks on commercial ships last week.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2019
Her fevered mind fastened like a limpet onto the notion that Estha was somehow responsible for Sophie Mol’s death.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
