Sentence examples for crab from high-quality English sources.

• The crab cake is the hamburger of the Chesapeake.

• Add the crab to the pan and boil for 20-30 minutes.

• It is closely related to the hermit crab and king crab.

• The crab has already been soused in the most important ingredient—Shaoxing wine.

• Pick over the crab meat to remove any stray bits of cartilage.

• It’s an extravagant dish featuring one snow crab and one kilogram’s worth of king crab in a large hot pot.

• The largest spider crab, and perhaps the largest known arthropod, is the giant crab (q.v.) of the Pacific waters near Japan.

• Separate the crab body from the central part of the crab by placing the crab on its back (hard shell-side down).

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• Separate the crab body from the central part of the crab by placing the crab on its back (hard shell-side down).

• That’s right, Cornish spider crab and soft shell crab all packaged together into a mutant, yet addictive combo, all legs and legs.

• Since crab has the best texture and subtlest flavor of all crustaceans, the best crab cakes are those that showcase the crab, not another ingredient.

• King crab, also called Alaskan king crab, or Japanese crab, (Paralithodes camtschaticus), marine crustacean of the order Decapoda, class Malacostraca.

• The Heroine goes to a local organic market where she expertly picks out just the right crab from the crab tank in a way that makes you want to Google “how to pick the best crab.”

• During the very brief soft shell crab season, the eatery offers a separate soft shell crab menu with items that include soft shell crab BLT and buster crab béarnaise.

• But then again, at dinner, you’ll have more crab options from black pepper crab to steamed crab with egg whites, alongside other seafood dishes such as garlic prawns and Nyonya assam (tamarind) soup.

• "A lot of king crab that's frozen is precooked and pasteurized and there's lots of preserving agents that are added, so buying a live king crab has a completely different flavor profile than your typical frozen crab leg

crab sentence examples

• The most important and valuable are the edible crab of the British and European coasts (Cancer pagurus) and, in North America, the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) of the Atlantic coast and the Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) of the Pacific coast.

• At Native Noodles, the dish comes in two cleverly contained forms: chili-crab pasta, featuring swirls of linguine slicked in ruddy gravy and spangled with lump meat, and chili-crab buns—mini mantou, their surfaces as crackly as crème brûlée, with a cup of crab gravy for dipping.

• Closely related North American species are the rock crab of the Atlantic coast (C. irroratus); the Jonah crab (C. borealis), in coastal waters from New England to Canada; and the red crab (C. productus) and the Pacific rock crab (C. antennarius), both in Pacific coastal waters.

• On a recent Saturday night, a steady stream of diners gathered at outdoor tables, sipping I.P.A.s from the fridge and feasting on crab rolls (perfectly seasoned in a subtle garlic-butter sauce, generously heaped on toasted Martin’s potato rolls), crab-leg clusters (elegant, clean-tasting Alaskan snow crab steamed then swirled in garlic butter, or fat, succulent Dungeness, surprisingly easy to crack, in creamy curry sauce), crab-avocado B.L.T.s, luscious crab mac and cheese.