clambake

Example Sentences

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Hundreds of years before Europeans arrived on New England shores, Native Americans created the clambake by digging pits in the sand to steam them with lobster.

From Washington Times • Aug. 14, 2023

I live in a city apartment with no outdoor space, but that doesn’t stop me from regularly making a full-on New England-style clambake for dinner.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

The resulting party — a clambake on a Hamptons beach — was such a resounding success that Mr. Cuomo decided Ms. Gollust should work for him.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Headlining a Rockingham County Democrats annual clambake, she zeroed in on the state’s soaring student loan debt.

From Fox News • May 22, 2019

Oh! clam at high-water, Here's somebody's daughter A sighing and crying your measure to take; She cares for you only, Poor bivalve so lonely, Because you are good in a Yankee clambake.

From Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various