How do you use Urchin in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like child or fry, plus the exact meaning.
Urchin meaning
- A mischievous child.
- A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
- A sea urchin.
Using Urchin
- The main meaning on this page is: A mischievous child. | A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets. | A sea urchin.
- Useful related words include: child, fry, tyke, tike.
- In the example corpus, urchin often appears in combinations such as: sea urchin, urchin and, the urchin.
Context around Urchin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Urchin
- In this selection, "urchin" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sea, purple, street, population, despite and die stand out and add context to how "urchin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and sea urchin and affected sea urchin center and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "urchin" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with urchin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They come in three flavors: fish, crab and sea urchin. (10 words)
Handmade porcelain sea-urchin bowl for beet meringue and caviar at Minibar. (12 words)
On Wednesday, we were out off Cleone and there were NO purple urchin. (13 words)
She sought revenge against Sea Urchin despite being fully recovered, so she donned Atlantean Blood-Code Carapace, which was traditionally only worn when it was for a duel to the death, though Namorita chose in the end not to kill Sea Urchin. (42 words)
The story is lifted intact from the 1992 movie, with the street urchin Aladdin (Mena Massoud) wooing Jasmine (Naomi Scott), daughter of the sultan of the city-state of Agrabah, with the help of a Genie (CGI’d Will Smith). (40 words)
Salt & Straw, the Portland, Oregon-based ice-cream shop that has built its reputation on unexpected flavors such as sea urchin and foie gras, is headed to Miami with two locations in spring 2020: Wynwood and Coconut Grove. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sea stars are the natural predator of the sea urchin and without a threat the urchin population exploded.
She sought revenge against Sea Urchin despite being fully recovered, so she donned Atlantean Blood-Code Carapace, which was traditionally only worn when it was for a duel to the death, though Namorita chose in the end not to kill Sea Urchin.
Back before the first sea urchin die-off, Levitan recalled seeing reefs in the U.S. Virgin Islands blanketed in the spiny creatures.
Imagine consuming meats grown from the most delicious cells from a menagerie of animals and plants—sea urchin, morel, blood orange.
On Wednesday, we were out off Cleone and there were NO purple urchin.
Photo compilation showing the same sea urchin before and after infection with the ciliate in the USF aquarium research facility.
They come in three flavors: fish, crab and sea urchin.
This photo provided by researchers shows a ciliate parasite-affected sea urchin, center, and a normal-looking one, left, in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, in April 2022.
The weekly market has since become known for its dedicated crowd of early-bird shoppers and unique array of local species, including sea urchin and Pacific sanddab.
Fish wholesalers at Tokyo's Toyosu wholesale food market are boosting their online sales activities for products seen at high-end sushi restaurants, such as bluefin tuna and sea urchin.
Urchin ranching would involve the removal of the creatures from their natural habitat before being placed in a controlled environment.
An “urchin airlift” – essentially an underwater vacuum cleaner – has been deployed at three restoration sites, with 41 metric tons of sea urchins removed.
First of all, the monk who was previously called the Disease Man gets a new name -- the name of the contagion he carries: the Urchin.
Salt & Straw, the Portland, Oregon-based ice-cream shop that has built its reputation on unexpected flavors such as sea urchin and foie gras, is headed to Miami with two locations in spring 2020: Wynwood and Coconut Grove.
The story is lifted intact from the 1992 movie, with the street urchin Aladdin (Mena Massoud) wooing Jasmine (Naomi Scott), daughter of the sultan of the city-state of Agrabah, with the help of a Genie (CGI’d Will Smith).
As “complementary predators of sea urchins,” Burt and her team observed that both otters and stars were needed in order to keep the urchin population under control.
Biancaniello is both barman and chef, a mad scientists of sorts, creating drinks in little oil-and-vinegar cruets or as liquor-soaked sponges atop sea urchin shells.
Bourdain wasn’t a politician, but he served as an ambassador of sorts, bridging cultural gaps in far-flung places over wine and sea urchin caviar pasta or along dirt roads slurping oysters and beer.
Handmade porcelain sea-urchin bowl for beet meringue and caviar at Minibar.
Sea cucumbers, which are shaped like cucumbers with small feet and measure up to 6 feet (1.8 metres), are echinoderms, a family that includes starfish and sea urchin.
Common combinations with urchin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: