prawn

Example Sentences

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Between overfishing, climate change, plastic pollution, and habitat destruction, it’s a bad time to be a prawn, cod, seabird, or whale.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

Products like albacore tuna and spot prawn can come from Vancouver, B.C.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023

Lunch was roast rack of lamb with an Asian-style marinade, prawn tacos with pineapple salsa and a strawberry ginger trifle.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

For many people the terms prawn and shrimp are used interchangeably.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

Trapped in my bond in this wretched life, I felt like the river prawn we’d found that day.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo