shuck

Example Sentences

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Considering that several former in-store shuckers were compelled to abandon their old ways thanks to Reddit, we'll say the answer is to not shuck your corn in stores.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2023

I’ll put one of my oyster plates in the freezer while I shuck the oysters from the farmers market.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2023

Martha was willing to shuck her ladylike trappings — to be ugly and to say ugly things — in ways the actor evidently is not.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

And the week before, just as Marlow & Sons reopened for dinner, its chef, Ryoko Yoshida, had offered to teach him how to shuck them.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

It was, in fact, a yellowish-brownish-green: a bit of a corn shuck.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien