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

When he could not convince his father to get into year-round prawn cultivation, Tom reached a deal with him: “Grow pokkali, but leave marketing to me.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

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

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

We often get animals that are caught as bycatch from a trawl or in a prawn trap.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2022

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