How to Use shrimper in a Sentence

shrimper

noun
  • Grass shrimp may be available once again as two shrimpers are back in business.
    — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 6 June 2017
  • Become friends with a shrimper and buy their haul straight off the shrimping boat.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The question is how shrimpers will adapt and innovate to change with the times.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
  • These are places where old shrimpers struggle to get by on their disability checks.
    — Mary Lee Grant, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The shrimpers spent four days on the water, trawling at night and trying to catch a bit of sleep each morning.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
  • But waiting until mid-May to open the season is now costing the shrimpers.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 22 May 2017
  • Matsuo, a skilled shrimper who loved his mother’s shrimp tempura, put his stamp on the snack world with crustaceans.
    — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Under current rules, shrimpers must look at the nets to check for turtles before lowering them again.
    — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Kermit describes past festivals in which the blessing involved many more shrimpers.
    — Nick Chrastil, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But her sweet spot was coastal people — firefighters and shrimpers, cooks and cops, loggers, politicians and old-timers — and history.
    — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 16 June 2023
  • Shrimper Acy Cooper said coastal communities rely on the oil workers and the shrimpers.
    — Kevin McGill, Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2020
  • For a shrimper already operating on slim margins, that's not just an inconvenience.
    — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • Frustrated shrimpers, with nowhere to put the smelly traps, generally just throw them back, continuing the cycle.
    — Ilima Loomis, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • The summer-long season for sport and subsistence shrimpers in Prince William Sound will close Friday night.
    — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Shoppers generally don’t get to meet the homeless trucker that brought their food from the factory farm to the grocery warehouse, nor the shrimper who lost a limb to a net hauler.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Croakers, members of the redfish and speckled trout family, are considered bycatch when shrimpers are harvesting bait and table fare.
    — Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2018
  • Gulfers—as shrimpers who ply the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are called—sometimes find golf balls mixed in with their Gulf of Mexican shrimp.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Fishing charters and shrimpers are an economic engine, and many residents are working-class people living in modest trailers or retirees in tranquil homes.
    — Rebecca Blackwell and James Pollard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Dockside prices ticked upward, and some shrimpers reinvested in their vessels over the winter, anticipating a more successful spring season.
    — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • In the 1980s, there were more than 6,000 licensed shrimpers working in Louisiana.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Mark Theriot, a 63-year-old shrimper, said he's been coming out every day simply because Scott Daspit and the other families need help.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2021
  • So far, Alabama and Louisiana are leading the charge to stamp out the misrepresentation and protect the bottom line of local shrimpers.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In the past, shrimpers could expect the crustaceans to grow throughout the spring season, which starts in May in Louisiana waters and generally runs through July.
    — Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • One study published in 2017 noted how the dead zone affects Gulf Coast shrimpers by driving down the price of shrimp and reducing profit for local businesses.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 10 June 2019
  • In the mid-1980s, Louisiana had nearly 20,000 shrimpers.
    — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • The Real Deal Even when shrimpers like Nacio innovate to become more efficient, their product can still be undercut by false advertising.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Alaska and California each had multiple requests approved; one for both Georgia and South Carolina will help shrimpers and shrimp processors.
    — Janet McConnaughey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Polous, a shrimper and oysterman, lost 14 boats, his home and pickup trucks in the quick-moving conflagration Sunday that left behind a trail of ash and ruins in Eastpoint, just across the river from the historic town of Apalachicola.
    — Brendan Farrington and Gary Fineout, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 June 2018
  • Despite the menu’s evolution, 99% of the ingredients remain local, honoring the bounty of shrimpers, oyster fishermen, crabbers, and farmers who define Southern Louisiana cuisine.
    — Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024

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