How to Use king crab in a Sentence

king crab

noun
  • Some are cooked and frozen right on the boat, like snow and king crabs.
    — Coastal Living, Southern Living, 4 June 2024
  • Crab is expensive, and king crab costs more than snow crab or blue crab.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2022
  • Or a one-pound Alaskan red king crab goes for $125.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • There will again be no opener for red or blue king crab due to low abundances.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Some of it will be decadent, like king crab and truffles served as a sushi roll.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Dec. 2020
  • This species of king crab is found in the western Atlantic ocean.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Red king crab is about a wrap and fishing for snow crab will get underway next month.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The menu includes an oyster bar, king crab, shrimp, lobster, salmon and more.
    — The Courier-Journal, 12 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Bradley does this version of the Thai soup as kind of a surf-and-turf with crispy fowl and king crab.
    — Andy Wang, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Oyster Bah offers a feast of king crab legs and prime burgers.
    — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • The shell of a hairy crab is perishable, but king crab shells are residual.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • At issue with king crab, Blume said he is told, is warming waters.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The raw bar includes peel-and-eat shrimp, king crab legs, jumbo shrimp, and oysters on the half shell.
    — Moby Dick, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The raw bar includes peel-and-eat shrimp, king crab legs, jumbo shrimp, and oysters on the half shell.
    — The Courier-Journal, 12 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Crown your steak with a selection of compound butters, sauces, or king crab.
    — The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Weighing up to 22 pounds with leg spans reaching six feet, the king crab is a catch to write home about.
    — Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Add-ons include king crab legs, live lobsters, lobster tails, mussels and more.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 12 Oct. 2022
  • During the past decade, as the Bering Sea warmed, king crab in some years moved farther north.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The surveys have tracked a long-term decline in Bristol Bay king crab.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The snow crab and king crab seasons are canceled this year, Alaskan officials say.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
  • On the higher end, the restaurant offers dungeness crab, king crab legs, and lobster tails.
    — al, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Dishes include beef tartare, king crab tart and pistachio frangipane tart.
    — Ana Khan, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Last year, Alaska closed king crab season for the first time since the 1990s.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The golden king crab the catch was nearing 5 million pounds out of a 6 million pound catch quota.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Then move on to the pasta, like the sweet corn agnolotti, king crab tagliolino nero and gnocchi with chunks of sausage.
    — Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • Order tuna crispy rice, king crab roll, truffle hotpot, and fillet mignon with yuzu truffle ponzu.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026
  • All major Bering Sea crab stocks, including red king crab and bairdi crab, were way down too.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023

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