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Examples of oyster bed in a Sentence
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His nonprofit restores New York Harbor’s once-resplendent underwater landscape by cultivating oyster beds that filter the water and kneecap wave and storm surge energy.
—Bill Kearney, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
His family’s oyster beds in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, had been wiped out by a red tide that hit the coast in 1987.
—Patrick Huyghe, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The softer premodern methods of soaking up floods, like oyster beds and wetlands, would never be able to absorb a major surge in the compact space left available in today’s New York.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2023
Île de Ré Located off the west coast, south of Normandy, this 32-square-mile island is known for its salt marshes, oyster beds, and bike paths.
—Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2023
Tropical storms can wreck oyster beds in shallow waters.
—Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 24 Aug. 2023
Plus, every purchase helps fund oyster bed restoration to improve water quality and keep estuaries vibrant and healthy.
—Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
But perhaps the most important reason for making reef preservation a priority is the oyster bed’s role in providing storm protection.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
Years of Decline The Jenkins family ran a seafood business on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia until disease ravaged the oyster beds there.
—Anita Lee, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1591, in the meaning defined above
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“Oyster bed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oyster%20bed. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
oyster bed
noun
: a place where oysters grow or are cultivated
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