How to Use carapace in a Sentence

carapace

noun

• Much of the carapace is derived from the backbone and ribs.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• Females have a red-brown carapace and can live for 20 years in the wild.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
• But boxfish sport a set of hard, bony plates, called a carapace.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Black, sleek, and oblong, the rig resembles the carapace of a xenomorph alien.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2007
• Their strange feeding style begins with a bite, and a tight grasp of the crab's main body, or carapace.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 6 Apr. 2018
• The drawn and quartered crab is packed into the upturned bowl of its carapace.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 18 May 2017
• The spider’s abdomen turns from blue to pink or red and the carapace becomes metallic green.
  — National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
• En route, the group stopped and piled out for a closer look at an adult tortoise with gashes and tooth marks on the front edge of its scuffed carapace.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
• Carefully remove the red roe sack in the carapace of the female lobster.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
• Cracks in the Will and Jada carapace became more pronounced.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The lobster’s carapace must be larger than 3 inches, located from between the horns to where the head meets the tail.
  — USA TODAY, 26 July 2019
• And then there was that large head carapace, or a defensive covering, like the shell of a turtle.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2021
• Next came the carapace of an enormous crab, a creature whose claws are often the only part consumed.
  — Betsy Andrews, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
• Flip over the crab’s enormous carapace to scrape out the guts, which taste like a tantalizingly funky sausage.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Over time, the studios seemed to harden around their occupants, like a carapace.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
• Salted crab releases its funk, along with bits of claw and carapace.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2019
• To form the carapace, over time, the ribs and vertebrae of early turtles (or stem-turtles) enlarged and fused.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2015
• In all cases, the apes accessed the meat through the bottom of the carapace, breaking a part technically called the plastron.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
• With Halftime, though, the shiny carapace of stardom is peeled back at least a little bit, and exactly on her terms.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 9 June 2022
• Back in the lab, Bednarsek looked at the crabs’ shells, known as its carapace, under an electron microscope.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2020
• Seeing the ocean so close, the turtle had likely taken a chance and crawled over the edge, nose-diving into the sand and then flipping on her carapace.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
• The limit on blue crabs is one 5-gallon bucket per day with a 5-inch minimum carapace (shell point to point).
  — David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 10 Aug. 2023
• The insides of the females’ carapaces are lined with thousands of tiny pale green eggs — the reason for tonight’s festivities.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• The domed carapace covering the back of the animal is connected to the flat plastron on the underside of the animal by a bridge of bone.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• At the heart of this open space, a stark bronze sculpture with a rounded carapace memorializes the atomic breakthroughs.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 15 Dec. 2017
• There, more fragments of the specimen, including pieces of the turtle’s pelvis and carapace — the part of the shell that covered the creature’s back — were discovered.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 29 Nov. 2022
• On the origin and variation of colors in lobsters carapace.
  — Mai Nguyen, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2015
• Florida softshell turtles grow up to two-feet long and look a bit like pancakes, with their flat carapace that’s cloaked in leathery skin.
  — Jani Actman, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2016
• Besides having a carapace that weighed more than a ton, fossil evidence shows their shells got as big as 9.8 feet from top to bottom.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
• And the only defense against its lessons is a hardened carapace of ideology.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024