How to Use urchin in a Sentence

urchin

noun

• Look in crevices for urchins, top snails, and true crabs.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
• His sternman, Roger, pulled urchins from the net on the next run and packed them into crates.
  — Porter Fox, WSJ, 6 June 2018
• At the raw bar a tatted-up crew lops off the spines of sea urchins and shucks oysters from both coasts.
  — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
• 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
• The urchins are fattened up at the ranches for sale to a global seafood market.
  — USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
• So the scientists didn’t expect fireworms to be able to get a bite out of an urchin.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
• Splurge on a bottle of champagne and enjoy the pressed duck, sea urchin pâté, and sardines.
  — Sarah Rowe, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2017
• But only the feet on the urchin's underside are for walking.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2018
• Still, the movie will steal your heart like a street urchin picking your pocket every time.
  — cleveland, 1 July 2020
• Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
  — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
• The same goes for the interactive giant video screen near a touch tank filled with sea urchins and sea stars.
  — Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 17 May 2017
• 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
• The urchins feast on a conveyor belt of kelp salad — leaves that have broken off kelp plants.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 16 Sep. 2018
• The young chef brings a trio of spankingly fresh urchins, whole scampi, and fish carpaccio, naked but for a few drops of olive oil and citrus.
  — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
• Remove the cut portion of the urchin and drain it of fluid and internal organs.
  — Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
• Since the kelp is gone, however, these urchins no longer have a good food supply and are thus calorie-poor.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 20 May 2024
• In less than an hour, Ms. Keane executed a big-eyed urchin.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Sea urchins, starfish and crayfish washing ashore in New Zealand.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Hwang nails the performance, showing there’s more to Eponine than a selfless street urchin with a crush on a boy.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
• Rice at many Chinese restaurants can be mushy and forgettable, but here, in a sea-urchin dish, it’s soaked in pu’er tea.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• So by eating it, the urchins give the corals the chance to grow, rather than be suffocated by algae, which has a much faster growth rate than coral.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023
• Around the 26-minute mark Headley shares a scene with Beatty, in a car at night, with a sleeping urchin (Charlie Korsmo) between them in the front seat.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017
• Garrett, once the urchin, was on his way to becoming a pro-surfer champion.
  — Paul Theroux, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• Others offer tips and tricks on how to befriend your own feathered urchin.
  — Sarah Sloat, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2022
• Parents should be careful with these costumes: Aladdin, the street urchin turned prince thanks to a genie and Disney movie of the same name.
  — Sonja Haller, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
• The artist Joseph Cornell once requested a picture of a street urchin with a white cockatoo.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
• Nation/World Growing a yard across and bearing two dozen limbs, the sunflower sea star prowls the deep, eating snails, abalones and urchins.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• The former street urchin took a succession of jobs in garment factories and picked up some English along the way.
  — Jeff Greenwald, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1994
• Octopi, spider crabs, urchins, and countless fish are already settling in.
  — Terry Ward, TIME, 25 July 2024
• Now, these prickly grazers are mowing down the kelp en masse and creating extensive urchin barrens where there were once dense, flourishing kelp forests.
  — Jennifer Adler, Vox, 7 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024