How to Use hermit crab in a Sentence

hermit crab

noun

• Whether kept as pets or spotted along a seashore, hermit crabs are a familiar sight.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• At 231 Mysterium Way, the pizza is fatal, the bus is powered by gerbils, and the dean of students is a hermit crab.
  — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024
• When snails became scarce, hermit crab broth was the next best thing.
  — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
• More in the mood for a tree frog, a hermit crab and a deadly battle of leopard vs. steenbok?
  — CNN, 3 Dec. 2022
• Take the king crab’s ancestor, for instance—the hermit crab.
  — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2020
• If the shell is too big, the prospecting hermit crab will sit back and wait to steal the castoff shell of a larger crab that decides to upgrade.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2015
• My mom also loaded me up with plants to take to my wife, so many plants, as well as three hermit crabs for my daughters.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• The naked tail of a hermit crab is a flaccid, unsexy, and vulnerable thing.
  — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
• Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Some Shore restaurant spaces are like hermit crab shells.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• Time your visit to the hour before or after low tide to explore the beach’s tide pools, teeming with starfish, mollusks and hermit crabs.
  — Rico Gagliano, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
• But ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ is about as much fun as buying a dud hermit crab as a pet.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• She’s like a creature of the earth, a veritable human hermit crab.
  — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• Crabs and other critters It’s easy to spot hermit crabs, which inhabit other animal shells and live in the tidal pools.
  — Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• There are shy animals, like the hermit crab, and outgoing animals, like the gibbon, shaking you down for your KIND bar in the rain forest.
  — Colin Nissan, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• In rough weather, however, Derreumaux will have to climb inside the cabin and hunker down like a hermit crab rather than power through.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
• Crabs—coconut crabs plus the smaller, more numerous strawberry hermit crabs—swarmed the body, removing most of the flesh within two weeks.
  — Rachel Hartigan Shea, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• In one famous photograph a mannequin’s hand protrudes from the shell of a hermit crab, which sits on a beach below a stormy sky (Untitled, Hand-Shell, 1934. Pictured, top).
  — The Economist, 3 Dec. 2019
• Crafted out of a hermit crab shell, a googly eye and a pair of pink Polly Pocket tennis shoes, Marcel the Shell leaves an outsize impression that belies his one-inch stature.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
• And the researchers wanted to know how these personality traits relate to the rest of a hermit crab's life-history strategy.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2015
• Typically, people go to pet stories to buy hermit crabs — ones that have been captured in the wild — but the industry isn’t well-regulated.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 7 Mar. 2023
• The team also found similar structures in close relatives of these sea creatures: cleaner shrimp, pistol shrimp, and hermit crabs.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
• That may make hermit crabs one of the first animals known to experience wealth inequality.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• Built into a teak replica of a fishing skiff in the center of the exhibits area, the pool encourages visitors to get their hands wet to engage with Cownose and Atlantic stingrays, along with horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs and sea anemones.
  — Joe Burbank, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• As with the Pixar film, the bugs (and adjacent creatures) are the main characters here, from cockroaches, monarch butterflies, and praying mantises to bees, spiders, and even hermit crabs.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• Of the world’s 16 terrestrial hermit crab species, ten have been spotted wearing our trash—and the behavior occurred in every tropical region on Earth.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
• The event will offer a variety of dishes and drinks from local restaurants and food trucks, music, kids’ activities and Finster Murphy’s iconic hermit crab races.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• In the mix there was a giant hermit crab, a polar bear taking a selfie next to a narwhal, a mushroom cap, Mr. Potato Head, Snoopy and an octopus emerging from the pages of an open book and gripping its tentacles around a submarine.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Wide beaches are crisscrossed by hermit crabs in extravagant shells, and vibrant coral reefs are visible through pristine waters.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
• Marine invertebrates—from octopuses to hermit crabs and creatures like the bizarre holothurians—are the focus of this photography book.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024