shrimp
Example Sentences
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"For the next week we just had tuna every day, it was a bit like Forrest Gump and the shrimp, we had curried tuna, fried tuna, battered tuna, beer-battered tuna, raw tuna."
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
If not, we’d go to Musso & Frank Grill to get a shrimp cocktail and steak dinner.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Other food orders, at times, would sit in windows too long and get cold, so staff would have to throw them away and remake them, while still cooking more shrimp.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Plates couldn’t be refilled until every shrimp was gone, and some servers were tasked with shrimp counting.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
In one quick move Neddie removed the shrimp from its casing and then chomped it down in two bites.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
