prawn

Example Sentences

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Massara, an Italian restaurant in New York City, even serves a cold pasta: a chilled spaghetti with red prawn and briny, decadent sea urchin.

From Salon • May 30, 2025

British supermarkets are brimming with packages of coronation cupcakes, hoppy coronation ale and coronation crisps seasoned to taste like king prawn cocktail.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2023

Lunch was roast rack of lamb with an Asian-style marinade, prawn tacos with pineapple salsa and a strawberry ginger trifle.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

For many people the terms prawn and shrimp are used interchangeably.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

Just as certain dishes—peach melba, prawn cocktail—have managed to spread across continents and survive over time, so some scientific doctrines are successfully disseminated, while others remain firmly tied to their time and place of origin.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton