How to Use crustacean in a Sentence

crustacean

noun

• The state is home to most of the country’s supply of the classy crustaceans.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• The crustacean will come with a mini loaf of nori bread to round out the meal.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• Giant Isopods, a type of crustacean that lurks in the deep sea.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• Fish, squid, and crustaceans are their main food sources here.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• When hauled back up, the sides close from the top, catching the crustaceans inside.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• The crustaceans made up 92 percent of all life seen during the dives.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• The purrs, croaks, and grunts of fish and crustaceans that live there and the sounds of healthy coral growing can echo through the water.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
• The coconut or robber crab is the largest land crustacean.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
• The tender crustaceans are sautéed in a white garlic sauce with a spice (spices?
  — The Know, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• Most of the unnamed species are crustaceans and marine worms.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 1 June 2023
• The distinctive bill would prove to be useful as the chick grew to scoop up crustaceans and fish.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
• The dish calls for sauteing the crustaceans in butter with garlic, adding a pinch of flour to thicken the gravy.
  — David Hammond, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The crawfish that feast on them were buried deep in the ground, and each of his traps only offered a dozen or so of the crustacean.
  — Phoebe Suy Gibson, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
• Siu’s soft-shell secret is a light touch that lets those crustaceans sing.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• Batfish use their pectoral, or side-fins, as 'legs' to 'crawl' on the seafloor to feed on worms, and small crustaceans and fish.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 19 June 2018
• Father Mark Rand and son Luke Rand said the crustacean will not be eaten.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
• One courageous crustacean has served up a reminder that where there’s a will, there’s a way.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 4 June 2018
• The fossils are that of an ancient crustacean and a squid, with a special cameo by a hungry shark.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 10 May 2021
• But that's just putting makeup on a crustacean: The trailer for the film is way better than sitting through it.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• Hawaii's spinner dolphins feast on fish and small crustaceans that surface from the ocean's depths at night.
  — Audrey McAvoy, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
• Or maybe in between takes on Happy Feet 2, in which Pitt and Damon played a zany pair of gay crustaceans?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Oct. 2017
• In this case, the crustacean—which mostly keeps to the seabed—buries itself beneath the sand, with just its eyes protruding from the mucky depths.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• These tiny crustaceans form the base of the food web and their displacement trickled up the food chain, from herring to salmon to whales and seabirds and pinnipeds.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• Humpback whales often eat shrimp-like crustaceans or krill and small fish.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
• Imagining a coral reef might bring to mind scenes teeming with fish, crustaceans and sea anemones.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• Warm waters brought less nutrient-rich copepods, tiny crustaceans at the base of the food chain.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
• That’s the conclusion of the first study to peer into the head of more than 200 crustaceans, including crabs, shrimp, and lobsters.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
• In fact, some specimens have even been found with the remains of crustaceans fossilized in their throats.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The biomass of tiny fish and crustaceans that live within the tendrils generate a food web of epic proportion.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
• The team is still working out why crustaceans managed so well, contrary to expectations.
  — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024