How to Use limpet in a Sentence

limpet

noun

• Pictures of pieces of a limpet mine were released as part of that effort by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2019
• Unlike the octopus, though, the limpet can’t change the shape of its layers after they are laid down.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• These shellfish, in turn, started crowding out the limpets and algal species.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
• How the limpet builds the layered structure with such precision is a mystery.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• There was no good reason to believe that limpets, time and again, lined themselves up in this V-shaped fashion.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
• Those pieces put together have U.S. sailors suspecting the limpet mine came from Iran.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Denver Post, 19 June 2019
• These larvae swim to the single species that serves as their unsuspecting host: a mollusk such as a snail or limpet.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• Tasnim, a semiofficial news agency close to Iran’s hard-liners, said limpet mines had been used in the attack.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
• Iran is also suspected of having attached a limpet mine to the tanker MT Pola.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2021
• Farther west, in Port Renfrew, was Botanical Beach, where tide pools were filled with limpets, mussels and sea anemones.
  — Suzanne MacNeille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
• Malloy's tenure saw oil tankers seized by Iran and a series of limpet mine explosions targeting tankers that the Navy blamed on Iran.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
• Gabriella Mas decided to look for limpets, tiny marine snails that cling to intertidal rocks.
  — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• In 2019, Western governments blamed Iran for a string of attacks targeting foreign ships with limpet mines near the Strait of Hormuz.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2021
• One of its most destructive weapons was the limpet mine, used to wreck everything from battleships to power stations.
  — WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
• Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the Guard, reported that a limpet mine planted on Saviz's hull caused the blast.
  — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• For international business, the risks could be clearly seen after crude oil prices jumped nearly 4% after the June limpet mine attacks in the Gulf of Oman.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• Attacks on ships over the past two years, involving commandos, limpet mines, drones or missiles, have raised alarm about passage in the waterways of the Middle East.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• The Saviz sustained damage in an early April limpet mine attack believed to be carried out by Israel.
  — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• The creature appeared to have been dead for years, but the bones and their surroundings teemed with life—wriggling worms, centimeter-size clams, little snails and limpets, and patches of white microbial mats.
  — Crispin T. S. Little, Scientific American, 23 May 2017
• Here is a tidal pool, with limpets resembling cocktail umbrellas, beds of blue-shelled mussels and feathery shrimp that seem to gallop through the brine; elsewhere, the splendid flourish of the dreaded giant squid.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Guides Jeremy Carberry and Kyle Fischler looked after us, pointing out sea urchins and keyhole limpets and invoking the days when pygmy mammoths roamed the island (yes, really).
  — Christopher Reynolds, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
• The explosion, which the agency said was caused by limpet mines, bore the hallmarks of attacks in an escalating maritime clash between regional adversaries Israel and Iran.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
• The leafbird’s single gyroid crystals exhibit the same optical property as the limpet’s layers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
• And then, suddenly, salvation in a limpet, Eulepetopsis vitrea.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• In 2019 limpet mines were attached to merchant ships, an advanced American drone shot down and a co-ordinated missile and drone attack launched against two Saudi oil installations.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• Local chef José Pereira combines Azorean ingredients with Japanese techniques: wild line-caught bluefin tuna sashimi and creamy local limpets served with yuzu soy.
  — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
• Iran’s unconventional and low-cost tactics—using proxies and suicide bombs, drones, limpet mines, and short- or medium-range missiles—have often prevailed, despite the odds against far mightier powers.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
• The Trump administration has blamed Iran for both incidents, at least one of which is said to have been carried out by use of limpet mine similar to devices previously displayed at Iranian military parades.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2019
• The attacks typically feature limpet mines and sometimes torpedoes, the American official said.
  — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• In tandem with the ecological experiments, our lab is sequencing owl limpet genomes to identify genes that potentially code for traits like faster growth or competitive prowess.
  — Erica Nielsen, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024