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How to use urchin in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Urchin means a hedgehog. Example: “And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family.”

Examples of urchin by meaning

nounA mischievous child.

  • And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC

More sentences with urchin

  • Sea urchins, for example, release between ten and one hundred billion sperm with every ejaculation.2016, Marah J. Hardt, Sex in the Sea, →ISBN. From the entry spew
  • The rest of the year he catches bluefin tuna and dives for sea urchins.2015 August 18, Christoph Gelfand, “'Diving for Scallops'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry tender
  • The class of animals (Echinoidea) that sea urchins belong to includes sand dollars and heart urchins.2007, Marian Armstrong, Wildlife and Plants, 3rd edition, volume 16, page 967. From the entry heart urchin
  • If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form.2001, Jennifer Hahn, Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage, published 2009, page 135. From the entry sand dollar
  • All the urchins of the marketplace formed a processional tail behind him.1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown, Part Fourteen, 14.4, p. 965. From the entry processional
  • Typically a scavenger, the bat star will also attack small white sea urchins.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 78. From the entry bat star
  • It would not only help civilize street urchins, but also overcome the heresies of the Catholic church.1977, Leonard L. Richards, “The Search for Order”, in “The Turbulent North”, in Carl N[eumann] Degler, editor, The Advent of American…. From the entry two birds—one stone
  • She ran to the door and there beheld the ragged street urchin calmly playing his organ.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 84. From the entry street urchin
  • Lord, what a fiendly young urchin and revolting pest I must have been!1945, Jeffery Farnol, The Piping Times. From the entry back-rapper
  • Some of the storefronts that sell dried clams and sea urchins and putrescible vegetables give it a kind of squalid character.”2007 April 24, James Barron, “Museum Plans to Move to Its Symbolic Home, ‘Littler Italy’”, in New York Times. From the entry putrescible
  • Sand dollars are flat, while heart urchins are oval, covered in short spines with longer spines down their back.2007, Marian Armstrong, Wildlife and Plants, 3rd edition, volume 16, page 967. From the entry heart urchin
  • I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.2004 April, Smithsonian, page 92. From the entry geoduck
  • The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins.2001, V. L. Kasyanov, Reproductive Strategy of Marine Bivalves and Echinoderms, page 90. From the entry sea urchin
  • Approximately 20% of sea urchins are direct-developers, meaning that they bypass the pluteal larval stage and develop directly into an adult sea urchin.2004, Belinda J. Sly, The Development and Evolution of the Echinoderm Nervous System, page 9. From the entry sea urchin
  • You see, he kept all nations o' wild birds an' wild animals down at his house; he'd linnets an' nanpies i' cages, and an ark full o' pricky-back urchins.2022, F. W. Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings. From the entry nanpie
  • Their living representatives include the sea urchins or 'true' echinoids, the heart-urchins or spatangoids and allied forms, the sand-dollars or clypeasteroids, and the slate-pencil-urchins, or cidaroids.2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 181. From the entry clypeasteroid
  • With a cry of anguish, she casts the bed-sheets aside, and crawls along the mattress to the foot of the bed, with the scurrying agility of an urchin.2002, Michel Faber, chapter 25, in The Crimson Petal and the White, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, →ISBN, part 4 (The Bosom of the Family), page…. From the entry bed-sheet
  • Trabocchi is indulging in more than a few high-end ingredients, including sea urchin, Kobe beef and nepitella, a wild Italian mintlike herb that he uses in savories and a dessert.2007 September 26, Florence Fabricant, “A Chef to Watch Finds a New York Niche”, in New York Times. From the entry nepitella

Meaning of urchin

  1. noun A hedgehog.
  2. noun A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
  3. noun A mischievous child.

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Questions about urchin in a sentence

How do you use urchin in a sentence?
Urchin is used as a noun. For example: “And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family.”
What is a short sentence with urchin?
“All the urchins of the marketplace formed a processional tail behind him.”
What does urchin mean?
Urchin means a hedgehog.

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