How to Use oyster bed in a Sentence

oyster bed

noun

• One area of special concern is the rich oyster beds of Galveston Bay.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• There are long, straight roads everywhere else, with views of oyster beds, grazing cows, and the sea.
  — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2018
• The local fisheries and oyster beds are still thriving.
  — Amor Towles, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• Releases in the summer of 2016 left the Treasure Coast coated with slimy, smelly algae and killed oyster beds and seagrass in the Caloosahatchee.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
• Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The decrease in the water's salinity around Louisiana oyster beds proved deadly for many of the shellfish.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2019
• Tropical storms can wreck oyster beds in shallow waters.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• Some of the proceeds from this wine are donated to oyster bed revitalization efforts, to ensure there will always be food to enjoy with it.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• One is a program to elevate oyster beds, protecting them from low-oxygen conditions along the bottom.
  — al, 3 Jan. 2020
• At the time, the city’s waterfront had lost the natural oyster beds that once cultivated city harbors and provided a natural way to dispense wave forces.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 11 May 2018
• The hands-on outing combines sightseeing, hauling in lobster traps, surfcast fishing from the shore, and digging for Retsyo oysters in an oyster bed farm just 900 feet from the hotel.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2022
• Plus, every purchase helps fund oyster bed restoration to improve water quality and keep estuaries vibrant and healthy.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
• The unsavory nature of the New York waterways has been an integral part of American urban lore since the 1920s, when industry closed the estuary’s many oyster beds, floating swimming pools and bathhouses.
  — Gina Levay, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• But perhaps the most important reason for making reef preservation a priority is the oyster bed’s role in providing storm protection.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
• From oyster bed restoration projects to the increase in marine protected areas, conservation efforts are growing worldwide.
  — Nusmila Lohani, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2020
• Additional reefs would be built in other public oyster grounds where conditions are suitable for growing oysters, but where substrate cultch — the stone, shells and other material that makes up an oyster bed — does not exist.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• Signature projects already underway range from creating floodable parks to using oyster beds as a kind of natural breakwater.
  — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024