How to Use prawn in a Sentence

prawn

noun

• Or any of the specials really – prime rib, steak and prawns, and more.
  — Jevensen, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2023
• Take your pick of lobster, prawns, or crab, grab a cold one, and enjoy.
  — Bridget Hallinan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2018
• Keeping their heads on ensures the prawns don’t dry out when they’re cooked.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• The wild prawn cocktail with Bere Island crab (€26) is sweet and briny, while the squash soup (€10) is a restorative.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 20 June 2022
• Meaning: do not order chicken, and also do not be afraid to try the lengua, the cabeza, or even the prawn.
  — Sunset Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• Each day of the experiment, the prawn and shrimp feeding spots moved around.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2021
• The day’s catch can include sea urchin, rock crab and spot prawns, plus a variety of whole fish.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2019
• At the end of each day, get intimate with juicy red prawns that were caught that morning.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 28 June 2018
• Some of the best dishes include the beef rendang, prawn dumplings, and the nasi lemak (a Malaysian specialty).
  — Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2023
• Kai see hor fun is also a kway teow soup, but the difference is in the prawns.
  — Emily Ding, CNN, 21 May 2017
• The first course includes warm cheese puffs and grilled Ecuadorian white prawns for the table.
  — Julie Giuffrida, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• The prawns are doused in a deep orange saffron bisque made with roasted prawn shells and butter.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2023
• The green papaya salad with prawn, mint and peanuts is crisp and refreshing.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• In the one-hour case, the cuttlefish had to swim up to the location where the breakfast prawn was offered to earn the second meal.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2021
• Both their tofu and prawn amok are cooked to perfection.
  — Kareena Gianani, National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• The whole lobster comes with rice, beans and tortillas and the ½ lobster includes four prawns, rice, beans and tortillas.
  — Carolina Gusman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Leave a Note Don't go anywhere else for prawns in coconut curry.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2017
• Prawns flexed past my face: fold, unfold, fold, unfold.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• Tiger prawns are not only tasty but super-quick to cook too – they can be done in less than five minutes.
  — Esra Gurkan, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
• The menu includes spicy pork ears, fried prawns, Chongqing noodles and boiled fish with pickled cabbage and chiles.
  — Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
• Huge, sweet, head-on prawns were plucked from the gulf, roasted, and bathed in fruity-hot Calabrian chile butter.
  — Fortune, 14 July 2019
• At The Café, best bets are the burger with bacon, red onion marmalade, and ale house cheddar ($26), or the prawn and calamari cookpot with crisp toast ($35).
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• Smelt, sardines, sea urchin, and rockfish deserve to share the spotlight with scallops and spot prawns.
  — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2019
• The cephalopods resisted eating a piece of prawn for as long as two minutes to earn an even better snack (a live shrimp).
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• Though this recipe calls for prawns, it can easily be made with chicken, lamb, or other types of seafood.
  — Tanner Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2020
• The fish stew, with halibut, scallops, clams, and prawns, is a slightly gussied-up if standard hearty casserole.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
• In some places, dams have also caused a decline in the natural predators of snails, such as fish, crayfish, and prawns.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
• The restaurant will serve modern Greek dishes like honey and fig saganaki and kataifi prawns.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Giant prawns are coated in Ethiopian berbere and served with jicama and rose water.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• The menu features 200-plus seafood items, including halibut, salmon, sushi-grade tuna, prawns, lobster and Dungeness crab — much of it caught by the restaurant’s own fishing fleet.
  — Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024