How to Use spider in a Sentence

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  • We watched the spider spin its web.
  • How many spiders are in the cave?
    — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The two spiders would then go on to mate.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This year’s theme is spiders, which gives us the creepy crawlies.
    — John Meyer, The Know, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Go creepy this year and dress your large dog up as a spooky spider.
    — Katey Clifford, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Why are they named Joro spiders?
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In Italy it was thought to have been caused by spider bites.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • The spider in this photo is huge, even scary to some.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
  • Patch any holes to keep insects and spiders off the porch.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Wolf spiders ambush on the ground at night.
    — Matthew Cordes, The Conversation, 6 Apr. 2026
  • What’s normal to the spider is chaos to the fly.
    — Brian Jenney, IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2026
  • Photos show the colony from afar and one spider up close.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Pets like frogs and cats are also known to hunt and kill spiders.
    — Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Patch any holes to keep insects and spiders off the porch.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The spider then lies in wait in the center of the silk patch.
    — Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Lice, roaches and spiders spilled from the drain of the sink.
    — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The orb-weaving spider gets the gold.
    — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Garbage lures insects, which in turn lure spiders.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Native spiders don’t live in these spots.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, the flashy spider could've just been making a clever pun.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 2 Oct. 2019
  • For some people, spiders are no joke.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Hot-glue the spiders to the yarn balls and hot-glue eyes to the spiders.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Ceilings cave; wires hang in the air like spider webs and spill on the floor.
    — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • The spiders had reason to dance.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the grass, the eyes of spiders shine like stars in the light of his headlamp.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2023
  • How can a spider build a web small enough to stretch over the grout between two bricks?
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2025
  • What happens if my dog eats a Joro spider?
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In the chilly season, when the air grows cold and the spiders die, comes a thin time.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2020
  • For each spider, pipe 8 thin legs around semisweet chocolate chip.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Two of the most common summer bite pests are spiders and ticks.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023

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