How to Use arthropod in a Sentence

arthropod

noun

• When the light turns blue, the same walls crawl with beetles, spiders and arthropods.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
• The hearty arthropods, which have roamed the earth for millions of years, can indeed be unwanted guests.
  — Peter Prengaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• These small, paired appendages near the mouth bite, hold and tear food, and arthropods with these mouthparts are called mandibulates.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 July 2024
• As far as prevention goes, Dr. Bhuyan says the best way to avoid typhus is to steer clear of arthropods (fleas, ticks, mites, and lice) that spread it.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• Add it all up, and light is one of the major causes of mortality for arthropods.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
• This tiny brown arthropod leads a quiet life, preferring shade and shelter and staying out of the way of the woodpecker’s bill.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Not much, apparently, for a rare type of arthropod from the planet's remote past.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2023
• Its dense shade cools mountain streams, and its leaves and branches host hundreds of insects and other arthropods.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
• Lianas form pathways from tree to tree that are used by monkeys, squirrels, sloths and thousands of species of insects and other small arthropods.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• Spiders aren't the only creatures that have evolved this trap-jaw mechanism, says Spagna—trap-jaw ants and springtails, a type of arthropod, both do.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2016
• While there are plenty of species of arthropods preserved in the fossil record, most fossils only preserve the hard skeletons.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
• The most common types of creatures in the CCZ are arthropods, worms, echinoderms (spiny invertebrates like sea urchins), and sponges.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 26 May 2023
• To see if perhaps crabs were the exception rather than the rule among arthropods, Full decided to study cockroaches.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• These arthropods lacked the skinny waist sported by modern spiders.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
• For example, marine arthropods called trilobites that lived more than half a billion years ago had calcite in their eyes.
  — Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
• Now a new study shows that wealthier homes have more types of arthropods—which include insects and spiders—than less expensive homes.
  — Matt Bertone, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2016
• They are known to feed on fungus, particularly the mildew type and possibly arthropods such as mites, aphids, and scale insects.
  — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
• The most profound impacts were seen during the wet season, when birds reduced arthropods by 58 percent and bats reduced them by 84 percent.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• And giant African millipedes (the same species of arthropods that escaped from a package addressed to Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz)?
  — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2019
• Across the natural world — in vertebrates, arthropods and plants — new species most often arise after a little more than 2 million years.
  — Quanta Magazine, 5 May 2015
• The mosquito emoji may pave the way for more medically important arthropods: perhaps the tick, flea, lice and bed bug emoji will be on their way soon.
  — Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
• Some researchers suggest that insect wings came from gill-like appendages present in ancient aquatic arthropods.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2024
• One dead animal can support a whole pop-up food web of microbes, soil fauna and arthropods that make their living off carcasses.
  — Jennifer Debruyn, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023
• These arthropods can be identified by their fuzzy, striped exterior and their 15 pairs of legs, which allow them to travel at speeds of 16 inches per second.
  — Margeaux Sippell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
• But in the celestial world of arthropods, none are more famous than the Crab Nebula, first observed by an amateur British astronomer in the 18th century.
  — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
• And the team found that artificial traps with feathers around them captured more wandering arthropods than those without.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2019
• There are also some familiar creatures, including arthropods such as crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, as well as sponges, starfish, and worms.
  — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 May 2023
• Some snakes prefer to eat amphibians, like frogs and arthropods, like spiders, or everything from ant and termite eggs to soft-bodied earthworms.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
• This Cambrian period critter is now considered a part of a specific group of arthropods called the mandibulates, who went on to become some of the most successful animals on our planet in and out of the water.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024