How to Use barnacle in a Sentence

barnacle

noun
Definition of barnaclenext
  • Check out the barnacle print, navy anchor, and sea glass designs that are sure to be the talk of the ship.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Use a sharp paring knife to scrape off any barnacles or dirt on the shells, and check for beards.
    — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 9 Apr. 2018
  • He was also concerned about the lice and barnacles on the whale’s head.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, sacbee, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Most of those rocks are instead bare or clothed in barnacles.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
  • And then at the same time somebody who worked for Bruce, scraping barnacles off his boat, drowned.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 May 2023
  • And a whole lobster showed up with barnacles on its body and the taste of creek water, like an overblown crawfish.
    — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • And Pollicipes polymerus may not be the only species of barnacle that does it.
    — Daniel Cressey, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2013
  • The oyster's shell is clean, with not a single barnacle clinging to it.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • On Game of Thrones, Daenerys stays glued to Drogon's back like a barnacle on a sea turtle's shell.
    — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2019
  • In comparison, the barnacle glue formed a bond that was eight times tougher.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Likely to a temp job of her own, sitting in for some other barnacle.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • But over time, a whale can be slowed down by animals that are a mere fraction of its size: barnacles.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • Think wild turbot from the Basque coast, thumb-size barnacles from Galicia, and the fattest red prawns straight from the Costa Brava.
    — Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2023
  • When the whisky bottles are hauled up, they are often covered with barnacles.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The most important of the carts wheeled out the day’s selection of seafood (gooseneck barnacles smelling of Galicia, red shrimp the size of small lobsters).
    — Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2023
  • After that were barnacles, then gastropods [such as snails and slugs], then bivalves such as clams.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
  • As soon as a juvenile mussel or barnacle tried to settle down, the lobsters scraped it up and ate it.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2018
  • In the days of wooden ships, when no dry dock was available, a captain would have the crew careen the ship, tilt it on its side on a beach to clear off barnacles and make repairs to the hull.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The 88-foot-long U-boat has collected a lining of barnacles and seaweed over the years, as well as fishing gear and nets, video obtained by the AP shows.
    — Aric Jenkins, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In Abu Dhabi, a jet-skiing man rescued a helpless turtle found in the middle of the ocean covered in barnacles and unable to swim.
    — Carissa Quiambao, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The whales are known for having ride-alongs: They are called humpbacks because of the barnacles frequently seen attached to their skin.
    — Delaney Chambers, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2016
  • Motorists must then take the barnacle to a drop-off location within 24 hours.
    — USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
  • Bring shrimp, fiddler crabs, oysters or barnacles for the best results.
    — Brent Gaskill, Tampa Bay Times, 21 Feb. 2017
  • Within six months of installation, the reefs teem with the oysters, barnacles, fish and crabs of Mobile Bay.
    — Mary Helene Hall | Mhall@al.com, al, 19 July 2023
  • Deep long grooves span the brown and orange metal, barnacles are attached to one of the flukes, or points, of the anchor, and the top is broken off, where a thin, cross-section piece called a stock once was.
    — Author: Sam Allen, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Then, the barnacles tangled in my hair will be my wedding crown and the shining fish that nibble my skin will be my silver wedding dress.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The sediments formed rocks and those were scraped off like barnacles when Greater Adria was forced under the mantle of Southern Europe.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Outside Barnes & Noble there were the usual right-wing loonies that have attached themselves like barnacles to Clinton for the past three decades.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Turner awakens from what appears to be a bad dream, and all seems normal — except for barnacles under the bed.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 May 2017
  • Their fishing rigs, baited with sea worms and squid and anchored with pyramid sinkers, could not tempt the tautog, who preferred barnacles and crabs.
    — Robert F. Kennedy, Town & Country, 1 June 2018

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