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Example sentences for "shrimps"

Lexicographically close words:
shrillness; shrills; shrilly; shrimp; shrimping; shrine; shrined; shrines; shrink; shrinkage
  1. That great hulking barrow—you took the barrow to bring the shrimps home in?

  2. I told them to let you sleep, though I know they wanted to hear how many shrimps you caught.

  3. For even the vision of watercress, shrimps and tea on the verandah at Shepherds will not force a light to the windows of the soul when they are blinded with anxiety.

  4. The wool may vary in colour, according to the colour of the Shrimps in the stream to be fished, from light yellow or reddish-yellow to a very dark brown.

  5. I have seen them leap out of the water to catch the Shrimps thrown to them before they reached the surface.

  6. I find that the general idea is that these Shrimps travel through the water in quick leaps by bending up their bodies and straightening them out again.

  7. I have also found that young trout in rearing ponds take Fresh-water Shrimps with the same greediness; and on considering these facts, I am surprised that there have not been more attempts to imitate the Fresh-water Shrimp.

  8. If this net be passed along the bottom, and some of the weeds and debris brought up, the Shrimps will be found among the contents of the net.

  9. The voracity with which these trout seize the Sandhoppers and Shrimps upon which they are fed is a perfect revelation.

  10. Beside the shrimps his other discoveries seemed inferior.

  11. Then he took the shrimps and mussels from the fire, and removing them from the pan, he separated them, and put them into different bark dishes.

  12. In the immediate neighborhood were some bark dishes, in some of which were shrimps and mussels.

  13. By the time they were heated, the dandelions were cooked; and Tom, removing the pan, put some shrimps and mussels in it, to boil over the fire.

  14. A lamprey now appears, a sprawling fish, With shrimps about it swimming in the dish.

  15. They smiled at black-eyed children, and found a Japanese restaurant, and tried to dine on raw fish and huge shrimps and roots soaked in a very fair grade of light-medium motor oil.

  16. If desired, this chowder can be made with fish broth instead of the stock, and with the addition of shrimps which have been taken from their shells.

  17. Janet took a deep breath when she had finished the reading of that letter, and when Mrs. Hewson pushed some shrimps on to her plate, she pulled the shells from them with impatient energy.

  18. She brushed the heads of the shrimps into the slop-basin with her hand and stood up, evidently offended, from the table.

  19. Mrs. Hewson looked up from a plate of shrimps which had been left over from the last evening's supper.

  20. Shrimps are very abundant near San Francisco, where extensive "shrimp fishing" is done by the Chinese.

  21. The hermit crabs are not true crabs, but are more nearly related to the crayfishes and shrimps than to the true broad-bodied, short-tailed crabs.

  22. The shrimps and prawns are mostly marine, though some species live in fresh water.

  23. Alcock remarks that in deep-sea Crustacea we never see "those freaks of colour, or those labyrinthine mottlings and dapplings, that excite our curiosity when handling the Crabs and Shrimps of the reefs.

  24. Most often the Shrimps are caught by means of a large bag-net attached to a semicircular hoop with a long handle, and pushed over the surface of the sand by a fisherman wading in the water at ebb-tide.

  25. This is shown most clearly, perhaps, in the Opossum Shrimps (Mysidacea).

  26. The Shrimps and Prawns of the tribe Caridea are mostly hatched as zoeae, and pass through a "schizopod" stage comparable to that of the Lobster, in which they swim by means of exopodites on the legs.

  27. A few are larger forms, and belong to the same group as the existing brine-shrimps and fairy-shrimps (Phyllopoda).

  28. Apicius rejects them, and fondly remembers the shrimps of his own Minturna.

  29. However, this luckless epicure was informed that the shrimps in Africa were more monstrous; and he embarks without losing a day.

  30. If the shrimps be not ready picked pour over a little water to wash them.

  31. Shrimps are of the prawn kind, and may be judged by the same rules.

  32. Ignoring Barry and his bread and butter, she put up her lorgnette and deliberately scrutinized the heap of pink shrimps which Fanny, pleased with her success, was just pushing across to Miss Martin.

  33. Kate, who had experienced sundry qualms at the idea of a feast of shrimps in the charming, old-world drawing-room, gave a decided assent.

  34. I'm afraid we shall have only the shrimps for our trouble, sir," he remarked with a shiver, for the morning was very cold.

  35. He was much less intent upon catching shrimps than watching the growing light in the eastern sky and calculating the boat's distance from Alderwick Knoll.

  36. At the first gleam of daylight you are going out with me in a shrimping boat, to fish for shrimps round about Alderwick shoal.

  37. For, along a line of rocks, although we might suffer from hunger, we should no longer be helpless chips on the ocean drift, and if no other life should be seen, at least occasional shrimps would gladden the heart.

  38. Seals feed upon shrimps and find the chief source of food in waters close to the land.

  39. Upon Mr. Munty alone the shrimps seemed to have made no effect.

  40. All these things did the shrimps enable her to gratify, and "the simple life" cost her more than all the others put together.

  41. Spiders raised their meshes where shrimps had skipped, and flies hummed and were caught by singing jungle vireos, where armored catfish had passed an hour or two before.

  42. Shrimp Sauce is very excellent made by pounding half a pint of shrimps with their skins, boiling ten minutes in three parts of a pint of water, finishing as directed for lobster sauce (No.

  43. If no essence of shrimps, the anchovy sauce may be served with shrimps in it as a substitute.

  44. As before, using the salpicon of shrimps as prepared for rissoles of shrimps or prawns (No.

  45. Make the melted butter as for the last, but finish with three tablespoonfuls of the essence of shrimps, and serve half a pint of picked shrimps in the boat with it.

  46. Then scatter over and around the fish, a small can of mushrooms, sliced, oysters, mussels, picked shrimps and some quenelles.

  47. Saute of Shrimps Melt a piece of butter in a stewpan with a little flour, salt and cayenne.

  48. Shrimps with Tomato Stew half a dozen large tomatoes with a tablespoonful of anchovy sauce, a piece of butter, salt, pepper and cayenne.

  49. Force Meat Balls for Chowder Take the meat of a good sized crab, a tumblerful of shrimps and a clove of garlic.

  50. Bisque of Prawns or Shrimps Boil three dozen prawns twenty minutes in salted water to cover them.

  51. Shrimps a la Bordelaise Place two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour in a saucepan and brown over the fire.

  52. Yet on this same small piece of weed there may be several good-sized crabs, slug-like creatures, shrimps and a fish two or three inches in length.

  53. The little shrimps are mere ghosts of life, transparent, yielding to every movement of the water--altogether marvelous.

  54. A tank that seems only a pool for a cuttle-fish, or a cod, is a vast region where prawns and shrimps are the inhabitants.

  55. The shrimps keep more out of sight; they burrow in the sand a good deal.

  56. You know one has to look for fresh-water shrimps in a brook if one wants to find them.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shrimps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.