noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hermit crab
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crab
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Anyone who has tried to remove a hermit crab from its shell will know how tenacious these creatures can be.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab .
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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Small hermit crabs are readily available where there is ocean water and their value as scavengers makes them worth considering.
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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What soothes me is lying on my belly at the edge of the water, watching hermit crabs .
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Suitably sized shells are often in short supply and in some areas this limits the hermit crab population.
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But the cowbird and hermit crab can make no such claims.
■ VERB
become
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For a few days, she had become a hermit , closeted in the small room which Sam had rented.
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Had I become a hermit already?
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Leo was right; she had become a hermit .
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Years later, Cloud became a hermit , declining his birthright as king.
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Similarly, becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal.
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Then the wanderer sought a resting place: he became a hermit and dedicated himself to St Cuthbert.
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Accordingly he returned home to Yorkshire with the firm intention of becoming a hermit .
live
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A neighbour of the Reillys said they lived like hermits .
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He was said to have money but lived like a hermit .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hermit crab carrying a sea anemone around on its shell.
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A hermit crab sticks sand and weed on its shell, and all Jay's glitz was camouflage.
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Emperor Constantine was said to visit the wise hermit for counsel.
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If you were a hermit or even a monk, you would have little trouble indeed in implementing it.
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Others are known to join the mooching hermit and his furry adjunct.
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Sometimes you can find a Zebra flatworm sharing the snail shell with the hermit crab.
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The hermit had suddenly stopped, one day, and had quickly looked at Mike over his shoulder.
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Three of the five were men: Richard Rolle, a hermit from North Yorkshire.