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54 examples of Oyster in a sentence

So now I want to introduce you to my new hero in the global climate change war, and that is the eastern oyster.
So the oyster was the basis for a manifesto-like urban design project that I did about the New York Harbor called "oyster-tecture."
We also learned at this time that you could eat an oyster about the size of a dinner plate in the Gowanus Canal itself.
Here we are, back to our hero, the oyster.
And one oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.
Basically, New York was built on the backs of oystermen, and our streets were literally built over oyster shells.
This image is an image of an oyster cart, which is now as ubiquitous as the hotdog cart is today.
So we were inspired by the oyster, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster.
It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks.
We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef.
And this glorious, readily available device is basically a floating raft with an oyster nursery below.
And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges.
And finally, how much fun it would be to watch the flupsy parade and cheer on the oyster spats as they go down to the reef.
But we imagine, with our calculations, that by 2050, you might be able to sink your teeth into a Gowanus oyster.
If you've ever been up to the big city, and used an Oyster card at all, does that ring any bells to anybody?
We came back to our pile, it was covered with hundreds of pounds of oyster mushrooms, and the color changed to a light form.
Already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.
The scene in which Moe is having trouble with the oyster was done before with Curly in "Dutiful But Dumb" (1941).
Our main character is an oyster girl named Nan (short for Nancy) from Winchester.
As a teenager, Nan works in her family-run oyster house.
Here Come the Co-Eds(1945)where a recreation of the oyster soup scene used in Mack's Wandering Willies(1926)is done.
So we have brief incidents with London as an oyster pirate, a sealer in the Bering Sea, a gold prospector in the Yukon and a correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War...colorful events, for sure, but hardly given anything like in-depth treatment.
This has severely impacted crab, oyster, and fish populations and hence the livelihood of traditional Bay water-men.
Phrases like “sand in the machine” and “grit in the oyster,” which were pejorative in the prelapsarian days of 2006, are now used to support regulatory or fiscal changes that may slow down trading and reduce its volume.
Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99% identical – bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ.
Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at 20,000 francs; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering-pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top-shell snails--greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun-carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred-star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery-furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother-of-pearl; green parrot shells from the seas of China; the virtually unknown cone snail from the genus Coenodullus; every variety of cowry used as money in India and Africa; a "glory-of-the-seas," the most valuable shell in the East Indies; finally, common periwinkles, delphinula snails, turret snails, violet snails, European cowries, volute snails, olive shells, miter shells, helmet shells, murex snails, whelks, harp shells, spiky periwinkles, triton snails, horn shells, spindle shells, conch shells, spider conchs, limpets, glass snails, sea butterflies-- every kind of delicate, fragile seashell that science has baptized with its most delightful names.
And if Mr. Ned Land did not repent of his gluttony at our oyster fest, it's because oysters are the only dish that never causes indigestion.
So I summoned Conseil, who brought me a small, light dragnet similar to those used in oyster fishing.
In most places they earn only a penny for each oyster that has a pearl, and they bring up so many that have none!""Only one penny to those poor people who make their employers rich!
"From now on we'll pay closer attention to 'em.""But," I went on, "for secreting pearls, the ideal mollusk is the pearl oyster Meleagrina margaritifera, that valuable shellfish.
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