Sentence examples for spider from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
It may seem incredibly obvious that anxious parents make their children fearful: scream if you see a spider and it's likely your child will, too.
More's description of him, laced with Tudor contempt for the physically imperfect – "little of stature, ill-fetured of limmes, croke-backed" – informed the lines Shakespeare gives to Queen Margaret, who calls him a "poisonous bunch back'd toad" and a "bottled spider".
Related: Read the Prince Charles 'black spider' memos in full The government has in any case closed off this route of enquiry.
He was alleged to be sending to ministers a stream of letters, dubbed the black spider memos because of his scrawly handwriting, but the public were not allowed to read them, or even know how many he was writing.
Related: The Guardian view on the black spider memos: Prince Charles has sacrificed political neutrality | Editorial Lawyers had been hired by Cameron's ministers and were due to go to a freedom of information tribunal later this year to argue in favour of keeping this batch of letters concealed.
You pass a banqueting hall, a mayor's parlour, committee rooms and reception rooms, until you reach a tiny office in which crouches the genial figure of Sir Howard Bernstein, like a spider in a gothic web of corridors, exuding power.
Raimi's final entry, 2007's Spider-Man 3, was fiercely criticised for presenting too many of the superhero's traditional opponents for one film.
I was one of those who saw Sony's move to revive Spider-Man on the big screen just five years after the failure of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 as a wholly commercially driven decision.
Now Sony, which has struggled with its own superhero saga ever since 2007's Spider-Man 3 was barracked by critics, has struck a deal to allow the masked wallcrawler to appear in a Marvel film without (apparently) undermining its ongoing rights to keep delivering separate solo Spidey films.
"So it wouldn't be possible for me to do Spider-Man 4 - I wouldn't know how to get up in the mornings".
Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man trilogy of films repeated the narrative arc, but did so over the course of three movies rather than one.
