spider
Example Sentences
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“Even when he’s walking around as Ben Reilly, his performance is infused with that underlying situation that he’s got spider DNA.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The spider need not be a figure of grotesquerie, Ms. Tatar tells us, but one of redemption—of creation—and of story.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The author rehabilitates the Greek Arachne—unfairly condemned to be a spider because of her creative ability—then returns us to Spider Woman and Spider Grandmother, the kindly, creative beings who bring life and wisdom to humankind.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The song itself is a brooding ballad with an astonishing vocal climax, but will it leave voters trapped in a spider web of indecision?
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Then she sticks that spider in the cell with the egg and shuts it up tight.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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