How do you use Oysters in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Oysters meaning
plural of oyster
Using Oysters
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of oyster
- In the example corpus, oysters often appears in combinations such as: oysters and, of oysters, oysters are.
Context around Oysters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oysters
- In this selection, "oysters" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pearl, dozen, armstrong, rarely, something and simmering stand out and add context to how "oysters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dozen oysters at jax and about some oysters simmering in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oysters" sits close to words such as amos, anchors and arid, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oysters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Colorado's Rocky Mountain Oysters are not actually oysters, but something else entirely. (13 words)
Climate change is also making ocean waters more acidic, potentially harming shellfish like oysters. (14 words)
Oysters became a delicacy that was exported throughout the country under the classification of “Emsworth Oysters”. (16 words)
Founded in 1888 by Lee Kum Sheung, the legend goes that he was selling cooked oysters in his tea house when one day he forgot about some oysters simmering in a pot and returned to a thick brown, delicious paste he began selling as oyster sauce. (46 words)
Before the days of cultured pearls, black pearls were rare and highly valued for the simple reason that white pearl oysters rarely produced naturally black pearls, and black pearl oysters rarely produced any natural pearls at all. (37 words)
For example, For sale: "fresh" fish, "fresh" oysters, could be construed to imply that fresh is not used with its everyday meaning, or indeed to indicate that the fish or oysters are anything but fresh. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Meanwhile Armstrong Oysters is located in the Camden Haven and coowner Brandon Armstrong said the team is able to deliver Easter oysters for the first time in years.
The only sure way to kill the infection is by cooking oysters to a safe temperature, which makes consuming raw oysters something of a risk.
Colorado's Rocky Mountain Oysters are not actually oysters, but something else entirely.
Founded in 1888 by Lee Kum Sheung, the legend goes that he was selling cooked oysters in his tea house when one day he forgot about some oysters simmering in a pot and returned to a thick brown, delicious paste he began selling as oyster sauce.
In two tributaries—the James and Great Wicomico rivers—oysters of sizes, including juveniles and baby oysters, were more abundant in the sanctuaries.
Enjoy a dozen oysters at Jax during oyster month and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a chance to win free oysters for a year.
Case in point: Appetizers offered on the promotional dinner menu include a half-dozen oysters on the half-shell or oysters "Bezos" (richer than a Rockefeller) with mushroom duxelles, foie gras, and marsala.
Before the days of cultured pearls, black pearls were rare and highly valued for the simple reason that white pearl oysters rarely produced naturally black pearls, and black pearl oysters rarely produced any natural pearls at all.
For example, For sale: "fresh" fish, "fresh" oysters, could be construed to imply that fresh is not used with its everyday meaning, or indeed to indicate that the fish or oysters are anything but fresh.
Oysters became a delicacy that was exported throughout the country under the classification of “Emsworth Oysters”.
The catch of pearl oysters is similar to the numbers of oysters taken during the natural pearl days.
A bunch of oysters and octopuses, from waves crashing against the bow and glasses rolling on deck, from vomit and diarrhea dripping down the aisles.
Also, the rule of only eating oysters in the months that contain the letter R is a good guide to follow — non R months mean warmer water temperature, which may promote bacterial growth.
And afterwards - despite the grey skies and rain - he got waist deep in the East River from a small beach and put some oysters into the water.
And how fitting for a shellfish shop on Ocean Street: Those fuzzy spatial boundaries evoke salty water flowing into fresh – an intermixing that generates the brackish environment that allows oysters to thrive.
As filter feeders, mollusks and oysters can harbor the virus and sicken people who eat them.
As soon as the divisions were made, the number of oysters were counted and the portion belonging to the government was sold by auction.
Baked Oysters Mainlander, another tidbit, were topped with a wonderful savory and slightly smoky bread pudding.
But like pearls in oysters, a good chippy does appear once in a while — one where the fish is always fresh, the batter crunchy and the chips fluffy.
Climate change is also making ocean waters more acidic, potentially harming shellfish like oysters.
Common combinations with oysters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- oysters and 29×
- of oysters 14×
- oysters are 12×
- raw oysters 11×
- and oysters 10×
- oysters to 9×
- oysters on 9×
- oysters in 8×
- oysters at 6×
- pearl oysters 6×