How To Use Crab In A Sentence

After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
A dried-out horseshoe crab is a delicate thing and there's no way it would survive the flight in my checked baggage. Horseshoe Crabs and the TSA

Shrimp, crab, and a variety of fish are harvested from the ocean.
Scrabble to its list of more commonplace activity holidays, such as painting and gardening. Times, Sunday Times
The crab nebula is the remnant from a supernova explosion 1054. High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmos
The 'light' canapés include a crab salad, rose veal tartare and partridge escabeche. Times, Sunday Times
Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
In this context the survivors in the UK electricity market will continue to scrabble for scale.
You can have sea bass, lobster, herring, turbot, sturgeon cusks, haddock, mullet, eels, crabs, oysters and mussels.
But, more likely, he has decided it is less of a PR risk to leave a journalist eating a solitary crab pasty in the drizzle than to be trapped alone with her and - God forbid - a tongue-loosening bottle of wine.
We walked along the beach collecting small crabs in a bucket.
She crabbed again when he didn't take advantage of the multi-laned road.
February 24, 2006 4: 56 PM bibliobibuli said ... visitor - you sure naughty one chatting up the girls again. what your ah mooi going to say this time? anna - sorry you were scrabbled, but at least you can take your piccy from here Meet Up and Scribble Night
Shrimp, octopus, clam, cuttlefish and crabmeat cooked with tomato sauce and Black Forest apple tea.
Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
There were mussels and abalones and clams and rock-oysters, and great ocean-crabs that were thrown upon the beaches in stormy weather. CHAPTER XVIII
There was an old lady who swallowed a crab. why did she grad that crawling crab?
He was feeding fish to crabs to fatten them and getting a good economic return from selling the crabs. Mary Robinson: Climate Change -- A Glimpse of the Future
Wooden legs bristling in every direction from under his arms, he moved crabwise towards the side door. DEATH IN FASHION
One means of correcting this mistake is to graft a limb of an appropriate pollenizer (generally a variety of crabapple) every six trees or so. Pollination
This is why a unionized workforce is a good thing: Disney World's costumed characters have won the right to wear their own underwear to work, after years of getting crabs and scabies from the Disney-provided articles. Boing Boing: June 10, 2001 - June 16, 2001 Archives
Late in October, for example, it occurred to Eduard that if he cut a cherimoya a custard apple with green indented skin and a creamy white interior into thin slices, the flesh looked like crabmeat; now a dish with cherimoya and spider crab is on the menu. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
Everyone in our office is playing email Scrabble.
Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
Mary Ellen Flynn is a crabby, old primary teacher about to begin her first position in London.
It's more of a crablike backward crawl. Times, Sunday Times
Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
Pile avo over the toast, top with crab, adding a few slices of drained cucumber. Times, Sunday Times
Even if you were that man himself, you have no reason to be crabbed at because I'm having a bad morning.
Her mistress, the lover of books and words, enjoyed the garden the most, sitting on the marble seat, admiring the green-blue-brown scenery with the simulated breeze stirring the bodhi leaves and crab-claw red heliconia. COG-WORK CAT • by Joyce Chng
Danes long ago used the ashes of hay as a seasoning, so Mr. Redzepi does, too: they smell vaguely of popcorn, and have accessorized both an egg dish and one with king crab.
In the town of Golden Meadow, along Bayou Lafourche, crabber Thomas Barrios said he felt "devastated" and "helpless. BP installs insertion tube, begins siphoning oil from leaking pipe
All five macaque species occurring in Thailand are present, namely rhesus Macaca mulatta, crab-eating M. fascicularis, pig-tailed M. nemestrina, Assam M. assamensis and stump-tailed M. arctoides. Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand
Still, with the movie ringing up millions in the domestic market, local film-makers are scrabbling to replicate its success.
If they are very lucky there may be some fruit, wild plums or a crab apple.
Similarly, in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, identical pigments are found in the megalopal retina (unfortunately, zoea larvae have not yet been studied) and in the adult.
I took an enormous step backward, too fast, and I stumbled, my hands crablike behind me, gripping tufts of spring grass. The Bird House
A crab nipped my toe while I was paddling.
This one hatched faster than the first, fierce little claws punching through the fragile shell and scrabbling to get free.
His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
The main food species of wreckfish in southern Brazil were the hake Merluccius hubbsi, the Argentine shortfin squid Illex argentinus and the red-crab Chaceon notialis.
Yet to borrow their reasoning and make an equivalent suggestion that Liverpool's fans in turn had some role in their own catastrophe, somehow makes a person execrable and lynchworthy.
While he sees the FTSE and Dow Jones industrial average rising this year, the Nasdaq is set to head crabwise for perhaps eight years.
Trinidadians are said by Creoles to be ethnically ‘mixed-up’ like callaloo, a kind of soup made from dasheen leaves and containing crab.
They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs.
The seasoning was an Old Bay seasoning which, I believe, usually goes with crab and other sea food.
Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available.
Try shredded pak choi, sliced shitake mushrooms, a handful of beansprouts, sliced mangetouts, cooked egg noodles and fresh crab meat.
Not so many people collect the crabs today as it's so labour-intensive.
If he indeed were guilty of such an execrable transgression, this newspaper would be among the first to condemn, and not defend, him and his broadcaster.
He'd instructed Crabbs to contact Heathcote Montague, man of business to the Cynsters. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
I enjoy keeping the garden clear of old raspberry canes, intrusive crab grass, and debris.
Eating crabs has brought John out in spots again.
The periwinkle in turn is preyed upon by blue crabs and diamondback terrapins.
For the many children participating it was a good opportunity to get close to mitten crabs, shrimp, fresh water mussels and even eels, as well as to a lot of deliciously slithery mud!
And after a satisfying day of bird-watching, treat yourself to a scrumptious meal of Maryland's famous blue crabs, oysters, or a freshly caught fish.
As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
Ellery wandered up and down, picking up shells and sea clams, and peering through the nets of the nearest weir at the "horsefoot crabs" and squid and flounders imprisoned in the pound. Keziah Coffin
Black bears may be seen best by boat in May and June, as they forage for crabs and fish along shorelines at low tide.
She turned to Ian enquiringly, as the boy scrabbled frantically on the floor looking for coins.
The government is scrabbling around for ways to raise revenue without putting up taxes.
Nethili, kanava, pomfret, seer, crab, tiger prawn and sand lobster are cooked in Indian, Chinese styles, Kababs, deep-fried and dry-fried, a truly gastronomic delight.
Their failure is not simply one of crabbiness or rancour; it's a failure of imagination.
My parents used to make what they called mock crab cakes. Recipe of the Day: Italian-Style Vegetable Pancakes - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
I play the most satisfying words in Scrabble, not the highest-scoring or the most strategically advantageous and will take myself out with the lead piping if I am ever forced to play Cluedo again. TV review: The Great British Bake-Off, The Making of King Arthur and Ideal
Corwin unfolded the cloth and found only bits of crabmeat with seaweed wrapped around it. WATER BOOK THREE: TRANSFORMATION
When actors baulked at speaking lines in a foreign language - or their accents were execrable - native-speakers were brought in to play the parts.
Like ‘solution’ or the blank tiles in Scrabble, you can use it anywhere, though it adds no other value.
But if the only way to do it is via a cranky and crabbed dismissal of science, count me out.
It might also have to do with having been the underdog for so long so that women kind of scrabble in these different jobs. The End Of The Macho Man?
Soft shell crabs are crabs that are molting, which is when the hard shell of the crab grows about 30 percent. Serious Eats: New York
Add the panko, shallot, cheese, and corn into the crab meat. Anneli Rufus: SPAM Pie and Other Cooking Competition Winners
Add coriander and when wilted, slip the crab claws under the liquid. Times, Sunday Times
As Crabbe describes him, Grimes begins as a brutal product of harsh circumstances.
Crabtree and his colleagues show why this issue is important in their discussion of ethnography and ethnomethodology.
Near the edge of the sea you'll find fiddler crab, ragworm and shore crab, sea mice and tiny blenny fish. Times, Sunday Times
The leaders will enjoy a dinner of giant crab and ￡50 a - kg a famous French chef.
Crabs normally catch food with their pincers.
Their day-to-day diet is a mix of worms, lugworm, white rag, smashed up shellfish like razorfish, cockles and sand clams, small crabs, shrimps and even small fish, for they, like most sea fish, are a predator in their own right.
Anyway, the point is (to get back to Scrabble) that the Scrabble-player plays anagrams with the letters in front of him or her - order out of chaos again, you see.
They had not intended to spend the afternoon, but found themselves too fascinated to turn away from the breakers bursting upon the rocks and from the many kinds of colorful sea life starfish, crabs, mussels, sea anemones, and, once, in a rock-pool, a small devilfish that chilled their blood when it cast the hooded net of its body around the small crabs they tossed to it. CHAPTER VI
I don't mind being the one who has to call the plumber, and sit with the plumber, and go scouting for soap dispensers for the kitchen to replace the ridiculous airgap that they make you put it, but I don't like everyone being crabby at me about the whole thing. Readersguide Diary Entry
A game of scrabble is underway, and there is much laughter and good feeling here in the relative quiet and isolation of the Jakes salt-water pool area. Calabash–Second Day and Night : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
A mutant crab has been caught in a fisherman's lobster pot. Times, Sunday Times
It grows as a surface incrustation on gastropod shells inhabited by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus.
Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
Perhaps that accounts for the relative crabbiness of my account? A Little Night Music
The apples are sour, but they are used for crab apple jelly, and this tree is one of the ancestors of our sweet apples. Times, Sunday Times
Crab A, Meiring M, Pritchard D, Deckmyn H (2001) Identification of a collagen-binding protein from Necator americanus by using a cDNA-expression phage display library. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The name originates from the word for crab, the term for the two creatures being almost interchangeable in early cultures.
Louse, body (pediculus corporis), 274 clothes (pediculus corporis), 274 crab, 275 head (pediculus capitis), 272 Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
A herring gull with a crab claw in its beak stood on the harbour wall, observing me with pale, unfriendly eyes. Times, Sunday Times
So I get pregnant and get the crabs to boot.
The floristics trait of intertidal crabs of the islands in the south of Zhejiang was reported in this paper according to the investigation conducted during 1990-1997.
So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators.
Remove from the heat, add the onion, green pepper, poblano pepper, jalapeño pepper, bay leaf, and crab in a medium bowl and mix to c combine.
After all, he is a hermit crab who predicts football results. Times, Sunday Times
The types of seafood they eat include mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, lobsters, abalone, and sea urchins.
Toys made of rubber in the shape of snakes, lizards, chameleons, scorpions and crabs are selling like hot cakes.
These are, of course, the sour thoughts of a crabbed and incorrigible old cynic.
Pediculosis pubis is a condition due to the presence of the pediculus pubis, or crab-louse. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Norwegian fisherman use nets to capture halibut, red perch, cod and king crab.
I believe the first use of pubic wigs was in ancient Egypt as the only cure that they had at the time for crabs.
Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks). Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
In this one, chunks of white crab meat and plump tiger prawns vie for your fork's attention. Times, Sunday Times
The lamb was accompanied by an eggplant caviar, curried Israeli couscous and crab apple almond salad.
The menu of cracked crab, moules marinières and ribeye steak is supplemented with daily changing dinner specials. Times, Sunday Times
Rather than "krab," the seafood equivalent of string cheese, they use real crab, and prove it by garnishing the endzone of the long serving plate with the crab leg shells. Kabuki Japanese Restaurant - Reason #572 Why Sarah Could Never be a Professional Restaurant Critic
A piece of fresh mullet, ladyfish or pogy will get the crabs chewing. Undefined
These rocks also stirred with novel species of eyeless shrimp, white crabs, translucent sea anemones and large, pink fish.
I finned along the starboard side to the base of the bow, where I found a monster edible crab.
Lymington is a charming port with little fashion boutiques and kiosks serving juicy crab sandwiches. Times, Sunday Times
During heavy rains the streets and even houses get flooded with knee-deep sullage water, bringing along with it snakes, crabs and insects.
I quickly scrabbled off the floor and ran to the bathroom; stripping off my clothes in a hurry.
A lifting and a blepharoplasty eyelid surgery helped her acquire a more youthful look and less crabby expression than she used to carry when she commanded the Presidential Staff Office during the Lula government. Ana Clara Costa: PHOTOS: See The New Brazilian President's Extreme Makeover
First off, I have not read one testimonial from a crab boat captain, about “how much a deck hand makes.” Fishing In Alaska
Out of interest, here are the Ultra Fractal files - limulus. ufr and limulus. ufm - for a 'horseshoe crab' biomorph I designed in Fractint a while back. Archive 2003-11-01
Saute the shallot slices, minced garlic and ground pepper until aromatic, add crab pieces, stir - fry.
Telerobot system can be widely used in high altitude exploration, deep-ocean exploitation, remote task or dangerous and execrable task environment.
I managed to scrab and kicked out, so at least one of them must have bruises or marks.
The scorpion is crablike in appearance and has claw-like pinchers.
The planula larva settles on a hermit crab shell and metamorphoses into a primary polyp.
A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
The living horseshoe crab, Limulus; compare with Fig. 38.
Football Hole, just around the corner, is a small sandy bay that's perfect for a picnic while you watch turnstones, oystercatchers and female eider ducks that bring their crèches of ducklings here to learn crab-catching skills.
Accusing us of being disloyal to cover his own sorry behavior is truly execrable.
But best of all was a chilled broth constructed around delicate slivers of Maine Peeky Toe crab and a green rosette of avocado.
Seafood is used in such delicacies as oysters in black bean sauce, prawns wrapped in seaweed, cucumber crab rolls, and clam and winter melon soup.
Hulking guys serve up platters of prawns, steamed crabs, and just-shucked oysters glistening in brine.
You wonder how frustrating it must be, still scrabbling to plug holes in low budgets after years of eager critical acclaim?
The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal.
WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree? The Sun
You can catch crabs from the quayside. Times, Sunday Times
This is truly, beyond any doubt, the best crab fritter you will ever have in your life.
Arrange pork belly, crab and enoki mushrooms and garnish with membrillo.
Maybe that's why I am feeling so crabby this morning.
Anglers had a selection of baits with them lugworm, ragworm mackerel, sandeel and peeler crab to catch that winning fish.
Scoop the brown meat out of the dressed crab and mix with the horseradish sauce and cream. The Sun
Atop the videocassette was a note penned in blue ink in my brother's surprisingly crabbed handwriting.
This composite image of the Crab Nebula combines a Chandra X-ray image in light blue with the Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image in red and Hubble Space Telescope’s optical image.
True to form, an amuse-bouche of gazpacho and curry with crab was delivered to the table and was a great kick-off.
There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
The canal offers a rich array of shellfish, including oysters, clams, mussels, and Dungeness crab, which can go from water to table in less than two hours.
It was written with a pen in a crabbed hand, and the sum and substance of it was this.
Like "axion" and "cayuse." ... dont like my word, challenge it using the official scrabble dictionary and see what happens. Dailycomic Diary Entry
Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
The number of eggs depredated by ghost crabs was estimated by counting those eggs that had a small circular section of the eggshell removed.
Heavy, polluting industry made Glasgow ostentatiously wealthy but left tens of thousands of its citizens scrabbling for survival. The Times Literary Supplement
The shoveller ducks are there, too fishing up with broad, flat beaks little crabs and such creatures as are in the mud, straining out mud and water, but swallowing the rest. Stories of California
Now all you have to do is turn the picked crab meat into a great supper by piling it high on garlicky, grilled ciabatta rolls.
The majority of trials were conducted with purple shore crabs, the most abundant predatory species co-occurring with porcelain crabs.
Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
We're all like hermit crabs : little naked creatures that have found a suitable shell and decided to live inside it until it stops fitting. Times, Sunday Times
Try the Scotch eggs with local chutney, followed by salmon and crab fishcakes. The Sun
I cried scrabbling to my feet and trying to run towards Carl.
Individuals tend to be specialized in their choice of prey: one otter may consume only urchins and crabs while another will eat mostly fish, all depending on the abilities of the individual otter and what is available in the area.
After a short hike around 18th-century limestone ruins on rocky Crab Cay, we camped on the sand of an unnamed barrier island, uninhabited but for a ravenous air force of mosquitoes and no-see-ums.
After the island came a long beach stroll; oystercatchers plundered the mussel beds and crows feasted on small crabs.
We had the most wonderful crab dip on pita chips, which had cheese on top and was served warm.
Company can be supplier Crab stick, Chikuwa , Fish Ball and also we can be your OEM.
She had suffered "a black eye and bruising all over my body" as well as "scrabs all over my neck".
They hung her bier with weed, and closed her eyes with shells, and the crabs she used to hunt had their revenge on her. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
He's been through hard times: his hardscrabble childhood on the veld would make David Copperfield's seem cosseted by comparison.
Immediately behind a hastily erected cordon of thick gold rope stands a scrabbling posse of paparazzi. LOVE YOU MADLY
We attributed the effect of predator exclusion primarily to juvenile green crabs and fish.
Approval of words is obviously not obtained by referring to the official Scrabble dictionary, but is solely subject to the opinion of the vile rabble with whom you are playing.
This has them scrabbling around for competitive definitions. Times, Sunday Times
Believe me, there will be some sort of cryptic code to decipher the real meaning behind the four crabs in one tank as opposed to the five lobsters in the other - and it will all have to do with the existence of the lost city of Atlantis.
As on the fish serving fork, the terminal of the fork is formed by a thick quahog clamshell with a tiny crab on it, and the stem is lavishly encrusted with marine elements.
She has been trying to design Scissors Crab, a plastic crab with goofy eyes on springs and pincers that can cut paper.
Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches.
We loved the stylishly presented lobster soup with crab and chilli toast, followed by flavoursome smoked saddle of lamb with saffron sauce. The Sun
The latest catch was a large mature male crab netted by Bridlington fisherman Andrew Sanderson last week.
There are beautiful branching deep-sea corals in yellow, brown and white, also deep sponges, cutthroat eels, rattail fish, red crabs, luminescent purple shimmering squid and other life abundant amidst the marine snow, organic detritus falling from above. David Helvarg: 9/11 From 200 miles Out at Sea
A police spokesman said that the man was scrabbling across the slope when a piece of rock broke away.
Somebody told me that if you hum next to a hermit crab, it brings it out - and it works. Times, Sunday Times
He scrabbled for the light switch.
A stick for prying clams from the reef, for example, counted as one techno-unit, whereas a bamboo crab trap with a baited lever counted as 16, because it comprised 16 working parts, each a technology in its own right. Why Some Islanders Build Better Crab Traps
The Lunch Group is to try out a local hostelry at the end of the month and our usual groups for Scrabble, knit-and-natter and the play reading will take place this month.
But this crabbed, Hobbesian spirit of social Darwinism has been bested before, and we can overcome it again.
As back-rows they spent the entire match scrabbling for possession, trying to stop the Wasps juggernaut.
The excess energy from quitting smoking has apparently slipped away and I'm in that dangerous stage in the battle where I'm crabby and snappish.
A small bird with a broken wing, left behind by its mates, struggles to escape a crowd of hungry crabs alongside a deserted seashore.
I tried to escape, crabbing sideways in an effort to crawl away.
Mullet, crabs, ray and other minnow are get together in the dock outside the Alabamian.
A rough night, Mr. Moore," he said, rather crabbedly. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
The wolffish have powerful jaws and teeth that can crush lobsters, urchins, clams, scallops and crabs. Home - BostonHerald.com
When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
For the more adventurous, check out the deep fried soft-shell crab or the cod roe, which are perfect accompaniments to an evening of tasteful tippling.
This food can only be adequately compared to the execrable fare that used to await unwary travellers at the highway service stations of my youth.
Like many crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans, stomatopods flick their antennules, probably to increase the velocity of their antennules relative to the surrounding fluid and reduce the boundary layer thickness.
Yes, they say five fingers aren't alike but the pricky Simon like American Idol judges of today forget to count their own times of execrable acts. Are Women Toys?
At a loss as to which bike is ugliest - the "lugged" more like luggaged crabon one or the preppy-vomit hued one. My Bike, It's Full of Stars! Every Material, Every Color, All the Time
Inside, a crabbed script covered page after page, interspaced by occasional line drawings.

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