prawn

Example Sentences

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Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.

From Salon • May 30, 2025

British supermarkets are brimming with packages of coronation cupcakes, hoppy coronation ale and coronation crisps seasoned to taste like king prawn cocktail.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023

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

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

We often get animals that are caught as bycatch from a trawl or in a prawn trap.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2022

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