How to Use Dungeness crab in a Sentence

Dungeness crab

noun

• The meal includes Dungeness crab deviled eggs as a starter and a choice of French onion soup, the Ounce salad or avocado toast for the first course.
  — Audrey Eads, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
• And the species’ future looks bright: Dungeness crab is one of the most sustainable seafood populations, and its long-term health seems good.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2023
• The a la carte menu features Black Forest waffle, Dungeness crab omelet, chilaquiles, steak frites and grilled salmon salad.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2021
• The current menu also features whole Dungeness crab served with crab emulsion.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• The remaining chefs must meet Brooke to dig for clams, and the chefs create a hot dish and a cold dish with one of James Beard’s favorite ingredients: Dungeness crab.
  — Washington Post, 23 June 2021
• Morro Bay is the home port for about 60 commercial fishermen, who bring in rockfish and wild salmon and Dungeness crab for both local consumption and export.
  — Judith Lewis Mernit, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2021
• As Cajun cooking has gained wider national popularity over the past 20 years, the menus of Cajun restaurants have expanded to include seafood native to other parts of the world such as Alaskan king crab, Dungeness crab, and, of course, snow crab.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 28 Nov. 2022
• Oregon already has an official bird (the Western Meadowlark), official animal (the beaver, of course) and an official crustacean (Dungeness crab, duh).
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
• Orcas were teaching one another how to sink boats, and the population decline of Dungeness crabs may be due partly to ocean acidification worsening their sense of smell.
  — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The daily consumption of chili crab, another Singaporean standard, available at a stall called Wok & Staple, seems less advisable—not least because a single Dungeness crab will set you back about sixty dollars.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Some skeptics of reintroduction question whether otters could threaten Dungeness crab fisheries, one of the most economically valuable in California, but research has found their populations do not harm these fisheries.
  — Olivia Ferrari, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024