SPIDER in a Sentence

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42 example sentences for SPIDER, such as:

1. The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
2. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web.
3. Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.
4. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
5. The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPIDER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
spider
 n.  a small creature with eight thin legs that catches insects in a web
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
2  One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the spider brought life, not death.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3  The Thenardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
4  They experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a man from the country.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE
5  The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
6  The lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
7  They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and quivering in the shadows.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
8  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  He unlocked the gate, and found that a spider had already constructed a large web, tying the door to the lintel, on the supposition that it was never to be opened again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
10  He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
11  I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  He gave many flies to one spider and many spiders to one bird, and then wanted a cat to eat the many birds.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  He is not now eating them, but putting them into a box, as of old, and is already examining the corners of his room to find a spider.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  He was already well ahead with his fly business; and he had just started in the spider line also; so he had not been of any trouble to me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  The way seemed interminable, and the streets like the black web of some sprawling spider.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
Example Sentence:
1  You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.
2  A ray of sunlight illuminated every filament of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.
3  Researchers have found trapped in amber a rare dinosaur-age scene of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
4  The spider's bite can cause pain and swelling.
5  It appears to be a fact that the bite of the tarantula is not more venomous than that of other large spiders.
6  Most spiders weave webs that are almost invisible.