How to Use spider in a Sentence

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  • In the grass, the eyes of spiders shine like stars in the light of his headlamp.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
  • Hot-glue the spiders to the yarn balls and hot-glue eyes to the spiders.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Each spider digs its own and spends most of its time there.
    David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Top off the look with a peaked hat or a big fake spider on the back of the cape for extra fun.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Her locs froze, and spiders even built nests in her hair.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 3 May 2024
  • The black widow is the most harmful spider to humans in the state.
    oregonlive, 18 July 2023
  • Their old school used to have a spider-web-style rope to climb and a pole for sliding down.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • To cure themselves of spider bites, Pliny wrote, deer ate crabs washed up on the beach, and sick goats did the same.
    Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • While many spiders are venomous, most do not have strong or long enough fangs to pierce the skin.
    Amanda Gardner, Health, 27 May 2024
  • Tiny faux spiders decorate the edges of this fun craft.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Complete the look by hot-gluing a spider or two onto the web.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2022
  • And sometimes, as with the spider boss Quelaag, that fire seeps up through the poison gunk.
    Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • Wrap the wreath form with white burlap ribbon and attach faux spiders with hot-glue.
    Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 9 Aug. 2023
  • One of the films centers on a spider woman who kills her prey with kisses.
    Michaela Zee, Variety, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The spider, Dzhos soon saw, was a box that contained a hand crank and some electrical wires.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Two players — Jeanine and Noelle — could not even make it out, as if they were stuck in a spider web.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2022
  • See who can put the spider closest to the center of the web—no peeking! Try something new with your jack-o’-lanterns this year.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The device, no bigger than a credit card, had long ago succumbed to the spider web of cracks on its screen.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Even the cheeky appearance of the spider web tattoo on her shoulder looked not-so-spooky in the sunlight.
    Amanda Curran, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Who knows, perhaps the spider, if unlucky, is a host for wasp larvae.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Lovette and Inoue fell into deep plies on pointe, inching across the stage like spiders.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Included is a 59-inch spider with red eyes that might just scare some of your neighbors a bit.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The singer wore a neon and nude catsuit, featuring a spider-like design.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Does that make these spiders even creepier-and-crawlier?
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s one type of spider that’s more tolerated than the rest — and that’s the jumping spider.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In addition to fiery ants, the frogs also feast on flies, mites, maggots and spiders. 4.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Doja Cat tagged the tattoo artist, Mr. K, adding a spider emoji.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • The video takes a turn when Garner starts making the tomato sauce and sees a spider on her cabinet.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • There are also representations of the largest spider and largest rodent in the world.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • This oral effluent is obnoxious to many predators; ants and spiders promptly flee.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 25 June 2024

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