How to Use sea urchin in a Sentence

sea urchin

noun

• There were some things, like sea urchin, that scared the hell out of me.
  — Laura Manske, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Black sea urchins feed on the algae that grows on the reef.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023
• Remove from heat and add the sea urchins, lemon peel, and basil.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
• The number of sea urchins also dropped in the north while rising in the south.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 27 July 2018
• Pieces here range from $4 (Faroe Island salmon nigiri) to $10 for the sea urchin.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2022
• The tanks are now covered in the algae the sea urchins normally eat.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023
• The sewage triggered the growth of sea urchins, then the urchins began to devour the lower portion of kelp plants.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Sea stars are more closely linked with sand dollars and sea urchins.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The day’s catch can include sea urchin, rock crab and spot prawns, plus a variety of whole fish.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2019
• Colors include quartz, sand, toffee, clay, sea urchin and pinot, which makes the pieces easy to mix and match.
  — Krystin Arneson, CNN Underscored, 12 Mar. 2021
• That’s because the kelp canopy on the periphery of their range had been devoured by sea urchins.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2018
• Maine is the site of a fishery for sea urchins, which are harvested so their roe can be used as food.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• One great barometer of a sushi-ya's worth is its treatment of sea urchin.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 3 May 2018
• Raven is hungry and asks Mink to obtain a sea urchin from under the water.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2019
• The novels are prickled like a sea urchin with the spines and fuzz of many indecencies.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Red sea urchin is a mainstay at high-end sushi restaurants and raw bars — a symbol of the state’s coastal bounty.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
• But the surviving sea urchins that could be used to do so are themselves under threat.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023
• There was chilled Dungeness crab, a few pristine white chunks under sea urchin foam, to be spooned from a shot glass.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2018
• That affects coral, algae, sea urchins, algae eaters, all of them.
  — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 1 May 2018
• One is dressed with butter and soy sauce and tossed with pieces of sea urchin; another is sweet and simple, tangy with ketchup.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2018
• Smelt, sardines, sea urchin, and rockfish deserve to share the spotlight with scallops and spot prawns.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2019
• Their version has sea urchin, which isn’t traditional, but the flavor goes so well with the dish.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 26 Oct. 2017
• The first course Adrienne: Spoon bread, sea urchin, buttermilk dashi, ham, caviar and wheat tuile.
  — Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• This along with new items like sea urchin pasta and steak in a pesto marinade is featured in the new Antoya restaurant.
  — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Sea stars died out, but the kelp-eating purple sea urchins, which the sea stars had fed on, exploded in numbers.
  — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2019
• There was no pineapple at our lunch, but there were other delights (Grey turns out to be partial to sea urchin).
  — Michael Paulson Dana Scruggs, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• The team said the highlight of Dive 08 was the rare sight of a gathering of the sea urchin Conolampas sigsbei at what may have been a breeding event.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2022
• Tiny orbs circulate some bites, others look like spiky sea urchins — but such forms defy what lands on the tongue.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• This caused huge kelp forest losses by allowing sea urchins – a favorite food of otters – to spread and consume kelp.
  — Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
• Starfish are more closely related to scum-sucking sea cucumbers and prickly sea urchins.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024