How to Use oyster in a Sentence

oyster

noun

• 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
• The 8,700-square-foot restaurant has an oyster bar and seafood bar.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In colonial times, the Chesapeake was packed with oysters.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2024
• Keep your promising outlook and the world will be your oyster.
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 22 Apr. 2022
• Who knew people were eating so many oysters in the 1940s?
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• The cocktail menu is creative, and snacks range from oysters to pizza to sushi.
  — Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• To wash oysters in the shell: Fill a large bowl or bucket with salty ice water, then add the shell oysters.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2024
• When attackers get this far, the world is their oyster.
  — Christian Espinosa, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• Eggs are laid under the female's hard oyster-like shell, which gives them their name, in late fall.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2022
• Learn all about the slippery mollusks at Matunuk’s oyster farm tour.
  — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• Use the vinegar to brighten a stew, collard greens, field peas, or oysters.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
• Why, for instance, does an oyster need to be dressed up with foam anyway?
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 10 Nov. 2022
• So Jeff and Adam hooked Leah up with some golden oyster and lion's mane mushrooms.
  — Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. 2024
• These hosts’ oyster farmer friends have delivered a buckets and buckets of their finest local oysters to this secret spot, and the only thing between you and your next meal is the shucking.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024