How to Use shrimper in a Sentence

shrimper

noun

• Become friends with a shrimper and buy their haul straight off the shrimping boat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• The shrimpers spent four days on the water, trawling at night and trying to catch a bit of sleep each morning.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
• Grass shrimp may be available once again as two shrimpers are back in business.
  — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 6 June 2017
• But waiting until mid-May to open the season is now costing the shrimpers.
  — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
• At stake is the livelihood of Mr. Jordan and shrimpers like him nationwide.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• The summer-long season for sport and subsistence shrimpers in Prince William Sound will close Friday night.
  — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
• These are places where old shrimpers struggle to get by on their disability checks.
  — Mary Lee Grant, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
• Matsuo, a skilled shrimper who loved his mother’s shrimp tempura, put his stamp on the snack world with crustaceans.
  — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
• Shrimper Acy Cooper said coastal communities rely on the oil workers and the shrimpers.
  — Kevin McGill, Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2020
• Under current rules, shrimpers must look at the nets to check for turtles before lowering them again.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Our house got its start as a shrimper’s shack and sits atop a bluff overlooking a weathered commercial dock on a deepwater creek.
  — John Huey, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
• But her sweet spot was coastal people — firefighters and shrimpers, cooks and cops, loggers, politicians and old-timers — and history.
  — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 16 June 2023
• Shoppers generally don’t get to meet the homeless trucker that brought their food from the factory farm to the grocery warehouse, nor the shrimper who lost a limb to a net hauler.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
• Kermit describes past festivals in which the blessing involved many more shrimpers.
  — Nick Chrastil, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• One study published in 2017 noted how the dead zone affects Gulf Coast shrimpers by driving down the price of shrimp and reducing profit for local businesses.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 10 June 2019
• Palacios, Texas: Vietnamese refugees in the small town overcame war trauma, language barriers and prejudice to make it as shrimpers.
  — Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
• Mark Theriot, a 63-year-old shrimper, said he's been coming out every day simply because Scott Daspit and the other families need help.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
• Frustrated shrimpers, with nowhere to put the smelly traps, generally just throw them back, continuing the cycle.
  — Ilima Loomis, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• Diane Wilson, a retired shrimper and environmental activist who led the plaintiffs group, said a cleanup of a creek near the plant that began last month is expected to take two years.
  — Kris Maher, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
• Polous, a shrimper and oysterman, lost 14 boats, his home and pickup trucks in the quick-moving conflagration Sunday that left behind a trail of ash and ruins in Eastpoint, just across the river from the historic town of Apalachicola.
  — Brendan Farrington and Gary Fineout, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 June 2018
• Croakers, members of the redfish and speckled trout family, are considered bycatch when shrimpers are harvesting bait and table fare.
  — Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2018
• History: China Camp is named for the settlement of 500 Chinese, mostly shrimpers (fishermen who netted shrimp).
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2017
• Fishing charters and shrimpers are an economic engine, and many residents are working-class people living in modest trailers or retirees in tranquil homes.
  — Rebecca Blackwell and James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• Alaska and California each had multiple requests approved; one for both Georgia and South Carolina will help shrimpers and shrimp processors.
  — Janet McConnaughey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
• Mississippi Biloxi: Mississippi’s shrimp fleet has received its ceremonial blessing for the 90th time, even as shrimpers worry about floodwaters harming shrimp production.
  — USA TODAY, 5 June 2019

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024