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

Restrictions on scallop dredging and prawn trawling required additional legislation which ministers promised to introduce in two stages.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2024

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

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

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2022

A very old man, bent but active, with white mustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in.

From "1984" by George Orwell