How to Use geoduck in a Sentence

geoduck

noun
  • Divers continue going down for over half a million pounds of geoduck clams.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Southeast divers are still going down for a half-million-pound geoduck clam quota.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2021
  • The commercial harvesting of geoduck clams has been closed since the last week of July.
    — Kimberly Cauvel, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Yao made the caviar dish previously with geoduck, and the clam drowned in the creamy extravagance.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
  • But geoducks were specifically excluded from the list of species that could be harvested.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • In Southeast Alaska, divers are still going down for giant geoduck clams and sea cucumbers.
    — Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2017
  • The red, snow, and king crabs are enormous and tender; the weathervane scallops, razor and geoduck clams, spot prawns, and wild salmon are ubiquitous.
    — Harry Pearson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The first, in the Quickfire round, was a very attractive geoduck sashimi, ponzu, apple, and cucumber.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Esquire, 15 Nov. 2012
  • Shellfish that can contain the toxins include clams, mussels, oysters, geoducks, cockles and crab viscera, known as crab butter.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2019
  • Red Pearl offers more than four-dozen seafood dishes, including some that are seasonally available (eel, blue crab, geoduck).
    — Eric Velasco, al, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Lingcod also is open in Southeast, where divers also have wrapped up a 2 million-pound sea cucumber fishery and are still tapping on giant geoduck clams.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Other undersea crops being grown in Alaska include urchins, sea cucumbers, mussels and giant geoduck clams.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
  • Divers in Southeast continue to pull up giant geoduck clams and crabbers are into a two-month summer fishery for Dungeness based on a strong start to the season.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2020
  • There are more than 600 active commercial permits in fisheries most affected by otters — urchins, geoduck clams, sea cucumbers and Dungeness crabs.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Washington authorities said the PSP has been discovered in clams, geoducks, scallops, mussels and oysters at the beaches.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
  • And then a rousing final parade of rich, raw seafood — the geoduck clam’s massive organ humbled into a crunchy fringe over rice, a Stellar Bay oyster with caviar — and then that gorgeous uni and truffled scallop.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Kohan said the true impact of the tariffs should be better known in the coming weeks as more geoducks and other seafood is shipped to China and processors begin making decisions on where to send their products now that the tariffs are in place.
    — Author: Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
  • Other Alaska species include Dungeness crab, king crab, snow crab and Tanners, geoduck clams, sablefish, herring, pollock, flounders, mackerel, perch and turbot.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2021

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