How to Use geoduck in a Sentence

geoduck

noun
  • A burrowed adult geoduck’s siphon can stretch about 39 inches into the sea bed.
    Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
  • The commercial harvesting of geoduck clams has been closed since the last week of July.
    Kimberly Cauvel, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The first, in the Quickfire round, was a very attractive geoduck sashimi, ponzu, apple, and cucumber.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Esquire, 15 Nov. 2012
  • 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
  • In Southeast Alaska, divers are still going down for giant geoduck clams and sea cucumbers.
    Laine Welch, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • But geoducks were specifically excluded from the list of species that could be harvested.
    Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Then came something quieter: uni paired with geoduck and spot prawns beneath mottled, musky petals of Italian black truffle for an enthralling, many-textured merger of land and sea.
    Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Divers are still tapping on a 1.7 million pound sea cucumber harvest; divers also continue fishing for over half a million pounds of giant geoduck clams.
    Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These built anticipation for the next course, where Anderson layered shaved geoduck marinated in seaweed and shallots with caramelized duck cream, translucent clam jelly, olive oil and a cap of mustard and radish flowers.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 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
  • Other undersea crops being grown in Alaska include urchins, sea cucumbers, mussels and giant geoduck clams.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
  • Southeast divers also are targeting giant geoduck clams.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020

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