How to Use urchin in a Sentence

urchin

noun
  • Before long, the urchin’s scraps are not enough.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The tide pools here teem with marine life, from anemones to urchins.
    — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The foreign urchins also need play rooms, with free toys and games.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The urchins feed on harmful algae that thrive in warmer waters and can harm coral.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Back on the boat, the urchins’ spines tickled the air like alien antennae.
    — Jaime Lowe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Freed from predation, purple urchins razed vast swaths of kelp unchecked.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • Electric blues, reds and purples of prickly urchins, sea stars and an anemones.
    — Outside Online, 26 June 2024
  • Still, the movie will steal your heart like a street urchin picking your pocket every time.
    — cleveland, 1 July 2020
  • His sternman, Roger, pulled urchins from the net on the next run and packed them into crates.
    — Porter Fox, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • The urchins are fattened up at the ranches for sale to a global seafood market.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2019
  • So the scientists didn’t expect fireworms to be able to get a bite out of an urchin.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
  • These urchins now persist in a dormant state, waiting for new kelp to appear.
    — Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The urchins feast on a conveyor belt of kelp salad — leaves that have broken off kelp plants.
    — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 16 Sep. 2018
  • The same goes for the interactive giant video screen near a touch tank filled with sea urchins and sea stars.
    — Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 17 May 2017
  • Since the kelp is gone, however, these urchins no longer have a good food supply and are thus calorie-poor.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 20 May 2024
  • Red sea urchin is a mainstay at high-end sushi restaurants and raw bars — a symbol of the state’s coastal bounty.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The grasslike material offers a home for baby urchins to cling to.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Garrett, once the urchin, was on his way to becoming a pro-surfer champion.
    — Paul Theroux, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
  • Along with sea urchins and starfish, sea cucumbers belong to a group called echinoderms.
    — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
  • Without sea stars to balance the food web, urchin numbers have exploded.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Find local lake fish or river salmon, in addition to shellfish, sharks, sea urchin and crabs.
    — Ashley Day, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Sea urchins, starfish and crayfish washing ashore in New Zealand.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The sewage triggered the growth of sea urchins, then the urchins began to devour the lower portion of kelp plants.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Remove the cut portion of the urchin and drain it of fluid and internal organs.
    — Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Sea urchin also comes as nigiri for $12, and sashimi for $24.
    — Ella Gonzales march 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The young chef brings a trio of spankingly fresh urchins, whole scampi, and fish carpaccio, naked but for a few drops of olive oil and citrus.
    — David Prior, CNT, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The same applies to any and all marine life, which might include sea turtles, urchins, jellyfish, and reef squid.
    — Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Rice at many Chinese restaurants can be mushy and forgettable, but here, in a sea-urchin dish, it’s soaked in pu’er tea.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Hwang nails the performance, showing there’s more to Eponine than a selfless street urchin with a crush on a boy.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2022
  • So by eating it, the urchins give the corals the chance to grow, rather than be suffocated by algae, which has a much faster growth rate than coral.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023

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