spider
Example Sentences
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Grace teams up with Rocky, a brilliant alien engineer who looks like a cross between a spider and a rock, and is the size of a Labrador.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
In his sister's room in Southampton, Thomas found a cellar spider carrying a ball of eggs in her jaws.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
“When between cycles, it can leave the spider vulnerable to threats. ... And for those spiders who make it through, it amounts to a kind of rebirth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Researchers examining spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, noticed something unusual on a spider only a few millimeters long.
From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026
While she sat there a fuzzy spider paced across the room.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
