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

Products like albacore tuna and spot prawn can come from Vancouver, B.C.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 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

A very old man, bent but active, with white mustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in.

From "1984" by George Orwell