shrimp
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Rearing the snails - as well as other critically endangered invertebrates such as scarlet malachite beetles, ladybird spiders and tadpole shrimp - has become a family affair.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Below, on a plain white plate, sat the actual dish: shrimp nested in crisp cups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s not uncommon to find breakfast burritos that exceed $20, like the $24 wrap with beef machaca and shrimp offered on Daisy Margarita Bar’s weekend brunch menu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
His truck, selling hot dogs, empanadas and fried shrimp, runs on rechargeable batteries as part of a city pilot aimed at cutting harmful noise and air pollution by harnessing electric energy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
That with a bite of the eggplant, which is really soft and almost souplike, and then with one of the shrimps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
For its owner, Greenlandic company Polar Seafoods, which sells shrimps, crab and halibut, shorter and direct flights mean new business possibilities.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024
"Pachystropheus probably lived the life of a modern-day otter, eating small fish or invertebrates such as shrimps," says Dr David Whiteside, another supervisor.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Trillions of fish, shrimps, amphipods, jellyfish, and squid rise to feed, using the cover of darkness to hide from predators.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
So he hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
As a youngster, Jenkins shrimped with his father.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
“There’s no good price for shrimp, and sometimes there’s no catch,” said Robert Griffin, a retired Golden Meadow oil worker who shrimped in his youth.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2018
When ur was a little chile ur shrimped with 'n! an' when ur was a gert maiden ur walked out with 'n!
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
It is true, such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimped things would they appear, if turned into English!
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
Ms. Langlinais, who also owns a marketing business, grew up in a shrimping family in Biloxi, Miss., immersed in the elaborate world of Mardi Gras.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
Dan Ellison started shrimping when he was 12, bringing a change of clothes on the boat so he could make it to school after early-morning outings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Working on a tugboat didn't bother Alton the way it bothered many other Pointe-aux-Chenes residents who had been forced to give up shrimping and fishing.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2023
Dale Kalliainen and his brother followed their father into the shrimping business and owns the trawler Night Wind, which landed amid a mobile home park near a bridge.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
“Reggie died in Georgia. According to Coach Douglas, he’d found work on a shrimping boat. There was an accident out in the water. He went overboard.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
