How to Use oyster in a Sentence

oyster

noun

• This allows the sauce more time to cook with the oyster.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2020
• The main road wasn't even paved; it was made of oyster shells.
  — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 16 July 2021
• The world is my oyster, and MGK — in a strange turn of events — is my new muse.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 12 Sep. 2021
• Even in the late 1800s, at the height of the oyster trade, there were billions of oysters in the bay.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
• Food items range in price from $7 to $18, plus $2 oysters.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• This is shirako, the sperm sacs of cod, soft and milky as oysters.
  — Ligaya Mishan Esther Choi, New York Times, 8 May 2023
• Now there’s an oyster bar right across the street from Wrigley Field.
  — Joseph Longo, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2021
• Poke, oysters, lox and salmon roe are all ready-to-eat as well.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• The 8,700-square-foot restaurant has an oyster bar and seafood bar.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2023
• Guests piled their plates with oysters and baked clams.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
• That doesn’t explain the oyster or grape thefts, of course.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2022
• Adults admire them, kids want to grow up to be them — the world’s their oyster.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Olympics as a whole seemed like an oyster shell without a pearl.
  — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
• Pour in the soy sauce, oyster sauce (if using) and sesame oil.
  — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 12 July 2024
• For many of our readers, the world has been their oyster these last months.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
• There’s food here too—at the indoor oyster bar or at the open-air grill and yacht club.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
• Add the broth, chile paste, sherry and oyster or hoisin sauce.
  — SFChronicle.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Here, the oyster stews, salmon banh mi, and crudos are life-giving.
  — Chris Malloy, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2023
• Combined with the steel case, this evokes the colors of an oyster shell.
  — Matthew Catellier, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Dying to go for a sail and slurp an oyster along the Rhode Island coast?
  — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• But what Huntsville didn’t have yet was an oyster bar, Mell says.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2021
• In the dining room, that means the votives are oyster shells filled with wax.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
• The candles on the tables are oyster shells filled with wax.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• For the Fab Four, the world was their dizzy, seductive oyster.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• The menu has a strong emphasis on fresh seafood from stuffed grouper to oysters on the half-shell.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025
• Some of these creatures are oysters, shrimp, fish, and blue crabs.
  — Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2023
• Caterers need to slip out of view as soon as the oysters and cocktails are served.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
• From fried shrimp to fresh oysters, enjoy the best of the coast at these flip-flop-friendly spots.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025
• Falafel and oysters and Cuban coffee and thin-crust pizza?
  — Laura Dannen Redman, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
• Joly recounts a bar where caramelized onion, roasted garlic and oyster shell extracts were once considered radical.
  — Rachel King, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025