How to Use oyster bed in a Sentence

oyster bed

noun
  • There are long, straight roads everywhere else, with views of oyster beds, grazing cows, and the sea.
    — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2018
  • One area of special concern is the rich oyster beds of Galveston Bay.
    — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The oyster beds were privately owned, and the oysters brought a good price in hotels and restaurants.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Above, in the shallow waters of the sea, oyster beds have yielded pearls since antiquity.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Other research projects that will cease include a program that recycles oyster shells from restaurants for use in restoring oyster beds.
    — Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • One is a program to elevate oyster beds, protecting them from low-oxygen conditions along the bottom.
    — al, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Participants will wade among mangroves and oyster beds, using nets to examine local aquatic life.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
  • The trip will include a paddle among the mangroves and oyster beds and a discussion of their importance to humans and other organisms.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2025
  • Some of the proceeds from this wine are donated to oyster bed revitalization efforts, to ensure there will always be food to enjoy with it.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Wade into the waters of the estuary to investigate marine life living among mangroves and oyster beds in salt marsh areas.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Health Department closed all the oyster beds, with New York's last shut in 1927.
    — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Each dish from the menu pays homage to the authentic tastes of the British coastline, from the farms of Pembrokeshire to the oyster beds of Essex.
    — Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • The decrease in the water's salinity around Louisiana oyster beds proved deadly for many of the shellfish.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Guests can also book a private oyster bed tour, and Ocean Edge donates $25 of the fee to a local oyster bed foundation.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Neither could Kendall, who had spent happy teenage years there with his father, stepmother, and brothers—and was still launching his boat from a dock on the property to work his oyster beds.
    — Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Signature projects already underway range from creating floodable parks to using oyster beds as a kind of natural breakwater.
    — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Puget Sound offers a portal to incredible seafood, from pristine Pacific salmon to the oyster beds along Hood Canal.
    — Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Tucked along a quiet stretch of Highway 1, where the fog rolls in thick and oyster beds shimmer just offshore, Nick’s Cove has held its ground for nearly a century.
    — Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • 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
  • Releases in the summer of 2016 left the Treasure Coast coated with slimy, smelly algae and killed oyster beds and seagrass in the Caloosahatchee.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Additional reefs would be built in other public oyster grounds where conditions are suitable for growing oysters, but where substrate cultch — the stone, shells and other material that makes up an oyster bed — does not exist.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Baby oysters imported from France are carefully grown for up to two years in one of the five oyster beds scattered across Oualidia’s lagoon—all while under 24 hour surveillance.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The hands-on outing combines sightseeing, hauling in lobster traps, surfcast fishing from the shore, and digging for Retsyo oysters in an oyster bed farm just 900 feet from the hotel.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Splurge on a multi-bedroom villa to enjoy privacy and access to one of the most scenic private beaches in the region, Bay Pines, where guests can enjoy picture-perfect sunsets, bonfires, and oyster bed tours.
    — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2024
  • By combining all these records, the team created a map showing dense oyster beds extended along the coastlines of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and continental Europe.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 3 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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