Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It begins its life in a form exactly like that of an entomostracous crustacean, and, like a Cyclops, has one large eye in the middle of its forehead.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

They are associated with small entomostracous crustaceans of the genus Cythere, and scales of small fishes.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I never succeeded in catching anything besides some beroe, and a few species of minute entomostracous crustacea.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles