barnacle

Example Sentences

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Crustacean specialist Pipit Pitriana from Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency is fascinated by the captured lobster, as well as some pearl-sized barnacles she thinks may be new to science.

From Barron's

Burns says that was all part of figuring out “how to loosen the barnacles of sentimentality that have encrusted themselves” on the war.

From Los Angeles Times

It is a general rule that people who believe in conspiracy theories cling to them like barnacles.

From MarketWatch

Neither wanted a relationship or the barnacles of feeling that come with commitments.

From Salon

The research team compiled an extensive database of studies on "underappreciated" organisms, ranging from sponges and barnacles to marine mammals, and everything in between.

From Science Daily