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
We are also experimentally pitting juvenile owl limpets against larger adults and other competing limpet species.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
Use the colorful Olympic Coast National Marine Life Sanctuary guide if you can’t tell a limpet from a clam.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
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
