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Example sentences for "shrimp"

Lexicographically close words:
shrillest; shrilling; shrillness; shrills; shrilly; shrimping; shrimps; shrine; shrined; shrines
  1. As these in turn are crushed, the more highly organised Malacostraca take the lead, and primitive specimens of the shrimp and lobster make their appearance.

  2. A shrimp (Artemia) was made to undergo considerable modification, by altering the proportion of salt in the water in which it was kept.

  3. Others announce the coming of the long-tailed Crustacea, of the lobster and shrimp type.

  4. The shrimp fisher flung in his net, and Loa, afraid to trust him in the water alone, went surfbathing.

  5. The little shrimp is better than the mussels we have been eating so long.

  6. The next day Hawai spent fashioning the shrimp net.

  7. She let the shrimp drop to the ground, uttered a cry, and moved toward him with a tottering gait.

  8. Tommy staggered to his feet and dropped nearer the plane, eyeing the shrimp with horror.

  9. It was a shrimp, but fully three feet in length, and Tommy had never before had any idea what an unpleasant object a shrimp is.

  10. With a cry of triumph she pulled out the shrimp Tommy had seen, or another like it, and, stripping it off the shell, began devouring it with evident relish.

  11. Towering over Dodd by six inches, she took his face in her hands and began caressing him; then, seizing his jaws in her strong fingers, she pried them apart, and popped the tail end of the shrimp into his mouth.

  12. She released him, stooped, and suddenly stood up, a shrimp about eighteen inches long in her hand.

  13. This is particularly pretty with lobster or shrimp salad on account of the contrast in the color.

  14. The shrimp was absolutely white, and probably blind.

  15. The water-shrimp is a very common crustacean in the small Thames tributaries, and valuable as fish food.

  16. Dish them on a hot napkin, garnish with cut lemon and fried parsley, and send them to table with shrimp sauce and plain melted butter.

  17. Serve on a hot napkin, garnish with cut lemon and parsley, and send lobster or shrimp sauce, and plain melted butter to table with it.

  18. Lobster or shrimp sauce, and plain melted butter, should be sent to table with it.

  19. Send them to table with shrimp sauce and plain melted butter.

  20. Send lobster or shrimp sauce and plain melted butter to table with it.

  21. Lobster, anchovy, or shrimp sauce, and plain melted butter, should be sent to table with it.

  22. Drain the pulp and add an equal quantity of crisp celery cut in small pieces, cucumber cut in small dice, and shrimp broken in four pieces.

  23. I heard the boys talking about your grand shrimp creole—and that they don’t get it often enough.

  24. About the best seasoning they give us up at the hospital is the shrimp creole.

  25. Did the boys enjoy that shrimp creole the other night?

  26. The boys were already preparing the shrimp for the pot, and Kitty quickly mixed the other ingredients.

  27. We’ve got the nicest mess of shrimp you ever saw,” boasted Ned Miller proudly.

  28. In the basket at her feet were the ingredients for Chief Krome’s famous shrimp creole, all except the shrimp which the boys were at that moment catching.

  29. He promised me that shrimp creole recipe, and they say I’ll have to run him down to get it,” Kitty explained.

  30. Chill shrimp and mix with equal quantity of crisp celery, a little lemon juice and a sprinkling of salt.

  31. Put the shrimp alive into the salted boiling water, allowing ¼ pound salt to 1 gallon water; boil them from 5 to 8 minutes; when they change color they are done; serve them with vinegar and oil.

  32. Especially nice over chicken, shrimp and fish salads; also on potato, tomato and egg salads.

  33. Another variety of shrimp resembles the common wood-louse found under pieces of bark, but is most beautifully iridescent, glowing like an opal at the bottom of the pool.

  34. The shrimp struggles for a moment and is then drawn downward out of sight.

  35. Let us return to our shrimp colonies and bring a handful to our pool.

  36. Take them up carefully without breaking, and serve with lobster or shrimp sauce.

  37. Serve with plenty of oyster or shrimp sauce, anchovy and butter.

  38. Turn them while broiling, and serve them up with melted butter, or shrimp sauce.

  39. A shrimp it can undoubtedly catch; and it exercises its vocation in shallow water, such as shrimps alone inhabit or small fish no larger than shrimps.

  40. Fishing fleets from the USSR, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean for mostly shrimp and tuna.

  41. I observe a communication respecting my little note on the shrimp in one of your recent Numbers.

  42. Every person too, must have remarked the agility of the old shrimp when caught.

  43. In such localities a small shrimp (Hippolyte varians, Leach) abounds, and it is to this favourite food that Mr. Lubbock attributes the excellence of these Perch.

  44. The shrimp test is one before which physically strong men have broken down, while the seemingly weak have displayed amazing fortitude.

  45. But put him in a Marchioness's drawing-room and set a shrimp before him, and the manner in which he tackles the task will reveal the sort of stuff he is made of.

  46. Since April there has been a serious shrimp shortage.

  47. How far this is responsible for dissatisfaction among the miners and other workers it is impossible to say; but in other circles of society this shrimp shortage has been responsible for much.

  48. But before one eats a shrimp a certain deftness and delicacy of manipulation are needed to effect the neat extraction of the creature from its unpalatable cuticle.

  49. Fishing fleets from Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean, mainly for shrimp and tuna.

  50. When these children were old enough to walk, the shrimp often visited them and related to them the sad fate of their parents.

  51. The crabs were so angry at his scorn that they ran at the shrimp and pinched him until he promised to help them in the battle.

  52. Big Ben Bailey was a fighter; he could whip a dozen men my size; and he didn't know what fear meant--yet a little shrimp like me gets to be a sergeant and he remains a private.

  53. But I managed to laugh at his description of the shrimp louie, and in a moment the big fellow and I became fast friends, for he promptly offered his assistance in the matter of Esky's disposal.

  54. Shrimp net, a dredge net fixed upon a pole, or a sweep net dragged over the fishing ground.

  55. The Shrimp and Prawn and Lobster are relations of the Crab; these crustaceans, as they are called, are all cased up in a hard crust, which will not stretch the slightest little bit.

  56. How can you tell a live Shrimp from a live Prawn?

  57. When the Prawn or Shrimp is not in a hurry, he swims slowly but surely with the little paddles, or "swimmerets.

  58. While the skin is still soft the Shrimp grows very quickly.

  59. After much wriggling, the Shrimp appears in a new soft skin.

  60. To tell a live Shrimp from a Prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head.

  61. All its wonderful changes, and the way its body is made, tell us plainly that the Barnacle is actually first cousin to the Crab, Lobster, Shrimp and Prawn!

  62. The hard, shelly covering of the Shrimp and Prawn is like the armour of the crab--it will not stretch in the least.

  63. They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards.

  64. To move quickly, the Shrimp or Prawn merely bends his body, then straightens it.

  65. Each egg is fastened by a kind of "glue," or else the rapid jerking of the mother Shrimp would soon loosen the eggs and set them free.

  66. Having learnt by experience, I sat with that patient days and days, saw each shrimp carefully peeled and dipped in weak solution of carbolic acid--the result was wonderful.

  67. They're only samples o' dressmaking and jewelry that a vain, conceited shrimp of a feller up in Sacramento sends down here to get customers for.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrimp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.