How to Use king crab in a Sentence

king crab

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  • Or a one-pound Alaskan red king crab goes for $125.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The menu includes an oyster bar, king crab, shrimp, lobster, salmon and more.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The menu includes king crab legs, whole lobsters, sushi, crab legs, oysters and shrimp.
    — Richard Guzman, Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The raw bar includes peel-and-eat shrimp, king crab legs, jumbo shrimp, and oysters on the half shell.
    — Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Dishes include beef tartare, king crab tart and pistachio frangipane tart.
    — Ana Khan, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Order tuna crispy rice, king crab roll, truffle hotpot, and fillet mignon with yuzu truffle ponzu.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For seafood lovers, there's also an impressive selection of market-fresh catches like king crab legs and salmon.
    — Livia Caligor, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The Sheldon Chalet has a live-in chef who can prepare everything from charcuterie plates to king crab feasts.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For seafood, check out Klaw, known for its Norwegian king crab, dry-aged steaks, and rooftop views over Biscayne Bay.
    — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The state's pristine waters are home to salmon, halibut, king crab, snow crab, and spot prawns that chefs say taste noticeably different when eaten close to the source.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
  • The priciest item on the menu is a $199 seafood tower with six oysters, seven shrimp, a half-pound of king crab, six crab claws and a whole lobster tail.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The dining scene, rooted in the cold waters surrounding the island — think colossal king crabs and plump scallops — has expanded as well.
    — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The offerings here are simple, but classic, with things like saba (mackerel) sushi, unagi (eel) handrolls, and king crab on the set menu.
    — Aniesia Williams, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Make a whole night out of the last day of 2025 by starting with a four-course prix fixe meal at Fahrenheit, featuring sea bass, filet and king crab, stuff lobster and more.
    — Evan Moore november 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Make a whole night out of the last day of 2025 by starting with a four-course prix fixe meal at Fahrenheit, featuring sea bass, filet and king crab, stuff lobster and more.
    — Charlottefive Staff, Charlotte Observer, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Legacy favorites like baked crab hand rolls, miso cod, and rock shrimp remain, while new arrivals such as toro tartare, A5 wagyu tataki, and king crab motoyaki push the menu forward.
    — Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Thankfully, Keith and his Wizard were also in far west waters near Adak Island on the hunt for red king crab and close enough to pick them up.
    — EW.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Archiebald Steak Home is a refined American steakhouse serving prime cuts of porterhouse and rib-eye alongside standout starters like king crab dumplings and steak tartare.
    — Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The 27-year-old restaurant is a celebrity hotspot where professional athletes, actors and billionaires are often seen dining on tomahawk steaks and king crab.
    — Claire Ballor, Dallas Morning News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Our founder and the rapper started their tasting with a king crab taco (which Snoop compared to Taco Bell), bread enriched with purple carrots, and mussels with calamari.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Don’t sleep on the Norwegian king crab appetizer, a comforting blend of velvety soup poured around Arctic char tartare, and topped with a Västerbotten cheese crisp.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Over the course of the long, strange night, the chef seared a nature film's worth of seafood, all of it local—mackerel, king crab, live abalone, and fat scallops in their shells cultivated in nearby Lake Saroma.
    — Alex Halberstadt, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Menus feature local ingredients like Chilean king crab, Patagonian lamb and guanaco, foraged fruit and herbs, and homemade sopaipillas pastries.
    — Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The spectator spectacle comes with a limited‑run tasting menu featuring oysters with smoked chili, king crab gunkan, yellowtail tartare, duck salad, wagyu gyoza, a sushi platter, a Sea & Land platter and a soccer‑themed dessert.
    — Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Other crustaceans in the same arthropod order (Decapoda) but belonging to the infraorder Anomura, such as hermit crabs, king crabs, and porcelain crabs, generally move forward or backward.
    — Manjishtha Bhattacharyya, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Some of these dishes-for-two include a surf and turf plate with filet mignon and half-lobster ($89), king crab au gratin ($69), large lobster tail with mac and cheese ($129) and molten chocolate lava marshmallow cake ($24).
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In a series first, Captain Sig Hansen launches an unprecedented covert scouting mission, deploying an underwater drone into the unknown waters in a bold attempt to locate the rare strain of king crab before the rest of the fleet arrives.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Come to one of the most distinguished addresses in the city, the Carlton Cannes for a sunny and luxurious lunch or dinner filled with Caviar by Maison Kasparian and other maritime delicacies like tuna carpaccio, and king crab mayonnaise.
    — Rana Good, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And 16 Emmys later, the documentary-style series has chronicled the harrowing adventures of various vessels and their intrepid crews across the October king crab and January snow crab seasons — battling boat collisions, power outages, 40-foot waves, and beyond.
    — Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025

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