How to Use limpet in a Sentence

limpet

noun
  • The area's tidepools are home to sea stars, chitons, crabs and limpets.
    — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
  • Slipper limpets are a type of sea snail known for a boat-like shape, with a curved, arched top and a flat, shelf-like deck.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The new species was named Pyropelta artemis, or the Artemis limpet.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These shellfish, in turn, started crowding out the limpets and algal species.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • How the limpet builds the layered structure with such precision is a mystery.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
  • Unlike the octopus, though, the limpet can’t change the shape of its layers after they are laid down.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
  • There are a bunch of different kinds of poke, a bunch of ahi, some crab poke, salmon poke, even poke with limpets, these little sand dollar things.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Gabriella Mas decided to look for limpets, tiny marine snails that cling to intertidal rocks.
    — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
  • Tasnim, a semiofficial news agency close to Iran’s hard-liners, said limpet mines had been used in the attack.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Slipper limpets, like other mollusks, feed by filtering, or passing water over their gills.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • One of its most destructive weapons was the limpet mine, used to wreck everything from battleships to power stations.
    — WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The sub and its sampling gear are cleaned between each dive, but this new limpet discovery suggests a mistake happened somewhere down the line.
    — Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2012
  • The whale had been dead for years, but its remains had become a thriving community on the seafloor, feeding clams, mussels, limpets and snails.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • Iran is also suspected of having attached a limpet mine to the tanker MT Pola.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Some of the limpets made a desperate (albeit nearly imperceptibly slow) break for freedom up the sides of the coffin.
    — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Farther west, in Port Renfrew, was Botanical Beach, where tide pools were filled with limpets, mussels and sea anemones.
    — Suzanne MacNeille, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Malloy's tenure saw oil tankers seized by Iran and a series of limpet mine explosions targeting tankers that the Navy blamed on Iran.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Maffeo stuck to him like a limpet, disrupting Messi’s rhythm with regular physical challenges.
    — Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Saviz sustained damage in an early April limpet mine attack believed to be carried out by Israel.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The mussels, limpets and sea snails live on the rocks in the treacherous intertidal zone, where an incoming swell could easily knock over a hapless collector.
    — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
  • Plunkett, the Janes analyst, suggested a limpet mine was a more likely explanation for the size and location of the hole.
    — Pau Mosquera, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • And then, suddenly, salvation in a limpet, Eulepetopsis vitrea.
    — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The limpet was collected from a hydrocarbon seep about 3,000 feet below the surface, researchers said.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The leafbird’s single gyroid crystals exhibit the same optical property as the limpet’s layers.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
  • As a result, slipper limpets compete with native mollusks for food and in areas where limpet populations are high, can outcompete oysters, clams, and mussels.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The creature appeared to have been dead for years, but the bones and their surroundings teemed with life—wriggling worms, centimeter-size clams, little snails and limpets, and patches of white microbial mats.
    — Crispin T. S. Little, Scientific American, 23 May 2017
  • Attacks on ships over the past two years, involving commandos, limpet mines, drones or missiles, have raised alarm about passage in the waterways of the Middle East.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the Guard, reported that a limpet mine planted on Saviz's hull caused the blast.
    — Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
  • While the species may be considered a nuisance because of their large presence on beaches, slipper limpets are edible, with one high-end Connecticut restaurant even putting them on the menu.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2025
  • For at least 100,000 years, humans have lived alongside this ecosystem, foraging limpets and mussels from tidal pools and diving through the kelp for pearlescent abalone and fish.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026

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