How to Use arthropod in a Sentence

arthropod

noun
  • Your mind is turning to mush like the arthropod guts that feed it.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2025
  • When the light turns blue, the same walls crawl with beetles, spiders and arthropods.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
  • These arthropods are more likely to prey on ticks when they are fully engorged with blood.
    — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a submarine landslide.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The hearty arthropods, which have roamed the earth for millions of years, can indeed be unwanted guests.
    — Peter Prengaman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Add it all up, and light is one of the major causes of mortality for arthropods.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But to them, the physics of arthropods makes electrostatic forces inevitable.
    — Max G. Levy, WIRED, 27 Oct. 2024
  • These arthropods lacked the skinny waist sported by modern spiders.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2024
  • And finally, there were arthropods, insects, and crustaceans, and so on.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Contemporary arthropods use the legs at the front of their bodies for many functions.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Not much, apparently, for a rare type of arthropod from the planet's remote past.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • The discovery sheds light on why arthropods evolved appendages protruding out of their heads.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Its dense shade cools mountain streams, and its leaves and branches host hundreds of insects and other arthropods.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
  • These arthropods are not hunting you; think of it like a run-in with your high-school ex in a grocery store — neither of you wants to be there.
    — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
  • For example, marine arthropods called trilobites that lived more than half a billion years ago had calcite in their eyes.
    — Evan Thomas Saitta, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The researchers compared its rear section to modern arthropods such as insects and horseshoe crabs.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 May 2025
  • Some researchers suggest that insect wings came from gill-like appendages present in ancient aquatic arthropods.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The new work also allowed the team to classify two other arthropods from the same time period.
    — Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • While arthropods today still have sensilla, odontodes seem to have largely evolved into teeth.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Lianas form pathways from tree to tree that are used by monkeys, squirrels, sloths and thousands of species of insects and other small arthropods.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
  • This tiny brown arthropod leads a quiet life, preferring shade and shelter and staying out of the way of the woodpecker’s bill.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • While there are plenty of species of arthropods preserved in the fossil record, most fossils only preserve the hard skeletons.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Now a new study shows that wealthier homes have more types of arthropods—which include insects and spiders—than less expensive homes.
    — Matt Bertone, National Geographic, 2 Aug. 2016
  • One dead animal can support a whole pop-up food web of microbes, soil fauna and arthropods that make their living off carcasses.
    — Jennifer Debruyn, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The manner of death remains a mystery, but arthropod remnants in its hair indicate that its carcass spent time in a small body of fresh water.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
  • In return, the pitchers receive valuable nutrients from arthropods eaten by the bats.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • And the team found that artificial traps with feathers around them captured more wandering arthropods than those without.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2019
  • They are known to feed on fungus, particularly the mildew type and possibly arthropods such as mites, aphids, and scale insects.
    — oregonlive.com, 26 July 2019
  • To see if perhaps crabs were the exception rather than the rule among arthropods, Full decided to study cockroaches.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • On land, movements range from crawling and slithering (worms, mollusks, arthropods, snakes) to walking and running.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

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