How to Use scarab in a Sentence

scarab

noun
  • Pride of place goes to the sacred scarab, seen here in all stones and sizes.
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Maridueña will star as Jaime Reyes, a teen who bonds with an alien scarab.
    — Vulture, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Milagro opens the box at home, and the scarab fuses with her brother.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Like the Wade Necklace, this is the first time the scarab design has been used in a film.
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Her amazement at the sight of the scarab sparked a positive change in the woman’s psyche.
    — Diane Owens Prettyman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • If that’s the case, this young royal was likely laid to rest wearing a scarab that bore the title of the city’s ruler.
    — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The mummy creates scary chaos by controlling sand, wind and swarming scarabs.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
  • Tamut was mummified with a large sheet-metal falcon ornament and a scarab over what was once her heart.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Images of scarabs were believed to bring good fortune, in this world and the next, if sewn in to the wrappings of your mummy.
    — National Geographic, 13 Mar. 2019
  • This sort of body horror thing that happens, which is straight from the comic, the scarab grafting itself to spine, all that stuff.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The heart scarab silenced the heart on Judgement Day, so as not to bear witness against the deceased.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
  • In the middle of the session, as the woman recounted her dream, a green and gold scarab flew into the office.
    — Diane Owens Prettyman, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This image shows the decoration of a large funerary scarab made from green semiprecious stone.
    — Chris Giles, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Long story short, Jenny steals the scarab and passes it to Jaime for safekeeping.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And the scarab was one of their most important symbols, used to show that one could be reborn again in the same way that the sun rises each morning.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The ring finds the Green Lantern, a scarab attaches to the Blue Beetle’s back.
    — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Federico Luppi plays an antiques dealer who finds a scarab that leads him into a nightmare.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The beetle’s helmet consisted of eight different pieces, but the biggest challenge was the scarab on the back.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Aug. 2023
  • One notable case included a patient relaying a dream to Jung about a golden scarab from the prior night.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On the nearby racks hung smock dresses in earthy colors called basalt and scarab, barrel-leg ecru denim trousers and seaweed green hooded wax-cotton parkas.
    — Thessaly La Force, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • And just as Jaime was chosen by the alien scarab that gave him super powers, Maridueña was handpicked for this groundbreaking role.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • With strict instructions to not open the box the scarab is hiding in, Jaime returns home where his family coerces him to peek inside.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • By collecting data using the CT scans, the researchers were able to 3D-print a copy of the heart scarab.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • One of her favorite specimens was the rain beetle, a fuzzy scarab-like insect that can't feed as an adult, relying solely on fat stores from its larval stages.
    — Christine Mai-Duc, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • They’re handmade by female Egyptian artisans and have clasps in the shape of lotus flowers or scarabs—my favorite detail.
    — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The scarab activates and attaches itself to his face, to everyone's horror—yep, just like the face huggers in Alien.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Found in a wooden coffin, the elderly woman dressed in a black wig and gold and silver scarab rings had been mummified with nothing short of a look of horror on her face.
    — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Consider the dung-roller scarabs, revered by the Ancient Egyptians and the subjects of many a film documentary.
    — Richard Jones, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2018
  • For hair, colors like the glow of the Northern Lights or gleam of a scarab’s shell are now attainable with Colour Alchemy.
    — Margaux Anbouba, ELLE, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Jaime gains his powers from a mysterious blue scarab, which is bound to his spine and acts somewhat autonomously of his wishes, determined to protect him at all costs.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 16 Aug. 2023

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