How to Use hermit crab in a Sentence

hermit crab

noun
  • Which hermit crab food is best?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • What’s the best hermit crab food to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • In each one, snails and hermit crabs help keep it free of algae.
    — Greg Allen, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • When snails became scarce, hermit crab broth was the next best thing.
    — Mallory Arnold, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But also chickens, guinea pigs and even hermit crabs.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 13 May 2026
  • What do hermit crabs do on Father's Day?
    — Jamie Fischer, Parents, 20 June 2026
  • The dung heap is being dismantled by a scrum of hermit crabs.
    — Kevin Gepford, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Whether kept as pets or spotted along a seashore, hermit crabs are a familiar sight.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Ruby-red sea stars were plastered on the rocks, and hermit crabs scampered across driftwood.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • Smaller critters — hermit crabs, lightning whelks and snails — skittered along the seafloor.
    — Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This hermit crab had to leave its shell and become vulnerable to find a new version of itself.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Avoid giving your hermit crab wood from apple, mango, hemlock or yew trees, though, as these can have toxic bark.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • 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
  • Still, there were hermit crabs and lizards creeping among the sea grapes, as there had been for millions of years, and wild cotton along the edges of the cliffs.
    — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • One of Rocha’s favorite discoveries was a hermit crab that uses clam-like shells as its home.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Certain foods and ingredients are harmful to hermit crabs.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • 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
  • Walking on the beach with James and looking for hermit crabs and looking for shells, with a newborn in a carrier or on my chest.
    — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024
  • That may make hermit crabs one of the first animals known to experience wealth inequality.
    — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
  • In both hermit crabs and humans, deliberation is not about detachment from feeling.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Wake up with the distinct call of the Asian koel and walk the silica shores as hermit crabs scuttle by and baby blacktip reef sharks play in the lapping waves.
    — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • There is also a lizard, four hermit crabs, a toothed frog, and a wall-size fish tank that the kids built with their father; its filtration system is based on the workings of a kidney.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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

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