How to Use oyster in a Sentence

oyster

noun
Definition of oysternext
  • The main road wasn't even paved; it was made of oyster shells.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 16 July 2021
  • The world is my oyster, and MGK — in a strange turn of events — is my new muse.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Food items range in price from $7 to $18, plus $2 oysters.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
    — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Now there’s an oyster bar right across the street from Wrigley Field.
    — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The 8,700-square-foot restaurant has an oyster bar and seafood bar.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
  • Guests piled their plates with oysters and baked clams.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That doesn’t explain the oyster or grape thefts, of course.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Adults admire them, kids want to grow up to be them — the world’s their oyster.
    — Bob Verini, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Olympics as a whole seemed like an oyster shell without a pearl.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Pour in the soy sauce, oyster sauce (if using) and sesame oil.
    — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
  • Here, the oyster stews, salmon banh mi, and crudos are life-giving.
    — Chris Malloy, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Combined with the steel case, this evokes the colors of an oyster shell.
    — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Dying to go for a sail and slurp an oyster along the Rhode Island coast?
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But what Huntsville didn’t have yet was an oyster bar, Mell says.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 28 Aug. 2021
  • In the dining room, that means the votives are oyster shells filled with wax.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The candles on the tables are oyster shells filled with wax.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Some of these creatures are oysters, shrimp, fish, and blue crabs.
    — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Fried and baked fish, cheese pizza, oysters, and sides.
    — The Courier-Journal, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The death is the second in the state this month traced to the bacteria, Vibrio, found in an oyster.
    — Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The raw bar includes peel-and-eat shrimp, king crab legs, jumbo shrimp, and oysters on the half shell.
    — Moby Dick, The Courier-Journal, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Katie also eats an oyster that’s been sitting in the sun and gags.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2021
  • With a new condiment brand and a TV show in the works, the world really is Todd's oyster.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 12 July 2022
  • Seafood entrees are on the menu, along with oysters, salads and sharables.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Insights and turns of phrase that lodged in my mind like grains of sand in an oyster now shine like pearls.
    — Robert Boucheron, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2021
  • The rabbit ear is served on a bed of oyster sauce with sea plankton caviar.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The boys get jobs at a local oyster farm to finance DNA tests.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2024
  • New seafood restaurant, oyster bar to open this spring.
    — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Very food friendly – think chicken and seafood – even oysters and caviar.
    — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Metro Phoenix restaurants have created options from over-the-top menus of caviar, oysters and wagyu beef topped with gold leaf to more down-to-earth a la carte options.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2024

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