scallop
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We’ll order a dozen oysters, a scallop tostada and a little steak frites if we’re feeling cheeky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meanwhile, the scallop and soup examples I mentioned above came, respectively, from Ed Yong’s “An Immense World,” about animal perception, and Sam Kean’s “The Disappearing Spoon”—of which I have completed 87% so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
More than 100 of the cubes have already been used at a scallop farm in Torbay.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
Lincoln Park also offers one of the best midday deals in the city: a $38 lunch tasting menu with edamame, spicy tuna crispy rice, sashimi and nigiri, a scallop hand roll, and more.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
The octopus was flopped and all forlorn on the bottom sand, trying to pry open a scallop.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
“I ran into a tiki bar one time. That wasn’t too good,” said Derrick Hoy, 55, who fishes scallops in the Atlantic on a different vessel from Crusher, the 30-foot boat he competes with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
With G&T, dinners showcase Dorset’s homegrown ingredients at their best: delicate hand-dived scallops from Lyme Bay, organic salads scattered with edible flowers, puddings as light as cherry blossoms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Government data shows crab landings down on previous years but catches of lobster, crawfish and scallops stable.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
"Today's lunch is sushi and miso soup," a message posted with the photo said, along with the hashtag #Yellowtail from Kagoshima and scallops from Hokkaido.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
She finishes her entree of scallops too quickly, sits for a very long time, it seems, watching Nikhil work his way through his quail.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
The scalloped bonnethead was last seen in Mexico in 1994, while the scoophead was last documented in 2007.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2025
From an office perched on the scalloped edge of the continent, Victoria Bradley jokes that she has the most beautiful doctor's practice in Australia.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
They scalloped when we visited my mother’s parents in Mexico Beach, FL.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024
The previous owners — an army general and his wife, a journalist — paneled the main room in rustic limed wood with scalloped trim.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
She makes us cucumber sandwiches, the edges scalloped to look like flowers, filled with thin slices of salami.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
For the adventurous and industrious, from October to March, the town sells $50-a-week shellfish permits for recreational scalloping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Brown was working with a vocabulary that she called “delicate aberrations,” and small-scale gestures repeatedly catch the eye, like palms carving the air in a scalloping motion, or a forearm folding into a rib.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2022
When my kids were younger, I always took them scalloping.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, where the William Lee docks, scalloping season begins in April.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 8, 2021
Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
