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How to use lobster in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Lobster means a crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood. Example: “Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!”

More sentences with lobster

  • Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!From the entry oceanside
  • This is the first (and last) time I've eaten lobster.From the entry have
  • We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.From the entry mayonnaise
  • My boss stuck me on the lobster shift: I have to work from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.From the entry lobster shift
  • A lobster has a pedunculate eye.From the entry pedunculate
  • The attack on a sea hare by a spiny lobster causes release of the whitish opaline, followed the co-release of both opaline and ink.From the entry opaline
  • And there are always lobster boats out with lobstermen and lobsterwomen working to catch someone's dinner!2019, Jordan Reeves, Jen Lee Reeves, Born Just Right, page 73. From the entry lobsterwoman
  • This York county town is a playground designed to lure Northeast lobster lovers.2017 April 2, Tara Donaldson, “5 quiet U.S. coastal towns that offer a seaside escape”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2026. From the entry York County
  • The lobster roll (market price) packed hunks of lobster into a hotdog bun with lettuce.2013 July 26, Ling-Mei Wong, “What to eat in Cape Cod: Skipper Restaurant”, in Sampan, Boston, Mass.: Asian American Civic Association…. From the entry hotdog bun
  • Happily The Delaunay is a few tippy-taps away and lobster roll has joined the menu.2012 July 18, Fay Maschler, “Five Things Fay Ate This Week”, in Evening Standard, page 30. From the entry tippy-tap
  • Like the lobsterless lobster salad before it, “zabster zalad” also contains mayonnaise, celery, salt and sugar.2011 August 30, James Barron, “Zabar’s New Non-Lobster Z-Food”, in The New York Times. From the entry lobsterless
  • And some recipes are just untweetable, like lobster Thermidor, which calls for 26 ingredients and 32 steps.2009 August 5, Michael Hill, “Tweet and potatoes: Recipes get scrunched”, in The State Journal-Register. From the entry untweetable
  • Weighing in at four pounds, the lobster was rubbery and tasteless from stem to stern.2005 Oct. 12, Marian Burros, "Take My Steak. Please." (restaurant review), New York Times (retrieved 23 Aug. 2012). From the entry from stem to stern
  • Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking.2004 January 1, Bob Bernstein, “Pumping out the heat”, in National Fisherman. From the entry groundfish
  • Instead he orders beef vindaloo, Cantonese lobster with ginger sauce, pork rangoon, and something called salad pizza.2003 05, Suzanne Finnamore, The Zygote Chronicles, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry rangoon
  • This lobster boat wasn't much larger, deckwise, than a rowboat, it seemed.1993, Sandy Dengler, A model murder: a Jack Prester mystery, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry deckwise
  • His eyes unhungrily saw shelves of tins, sardines, gaudy lobsters' claws.1989 May, Dennis Brown, The Modernist Self in Twentieth-Century English Literature: A Study in Self-Fragmentation, London: Palgrave…. From the entry unhungrily
  • His overall color was similar to that of a well-boiled lobster.1957 July, Randall Garrett, “The Best Policy”, in Astounding Science Fiction. From the entry well
  • My steak is too juicy my lobster too buttery! ¶ But seriously, sounds like the mending gods love you dearly.2025 November 9, JustWelfare, “Why do people protect mending villagers so much?”, in r/Minecraft (Reddit post), archived from the original…. From the entry my steak is too juicy, my lobster is too buttery
  • Kirk isn’t kidding when he calls them pygmie lobsters, these fellas are big, way bigger even than the coonstripe shrimp!2024 February 14 (last accessed), Camilla Lombard, “Grilled Spot Prawns with Lime and Basil”, in Sea Forager. From the entry coonstripe shrimp
  • Craftsmen churned out cheap helmets – lobster pots with hammered steel neckguards rather than the fancy segmented type the Roundheads wore.2018, Nicholas Carter, Black Tom's Red Army, Canelo, →ISBN. From the entry lobster pot
  • Dishes highlight fresh seafood and include ceviche, seafood burgers, and specialty tacos like lobster and fish al pastor.2018, Joshua Eden Hinsdale, Explorer's Guide Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya (Fifth Edition) (Explorer's Complete), The…. From the entry al pastor
  • Monkfish, the poor man's lobster, according to my fish mongerer, tasted very similar to lobster almost better in my eyes.2011 December 21, Pluffmud (username), “Mock lobster”, in Allrecipes.com, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2019. From the entry mongerer
  • I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.2002, Patricia Hickman, Sandpebbles, page 194. From the entry cobette
  • I'll keep paddling." I started untangling lines, pulling in jibsail cloth like a lobster fisherman pulling up a trap.2002, Eric Stiller, Keep Australia On Your Left: A True Story of an Attempt to Circumnavigate Australia by Kayak, page 106. From the entry derig
  • Generously fill each hot-dog bun with lobster salad and serve.2000, Food & Wine. From the entry hot-dog bun
  • She has dropped it by autotomy, like the tail or claw of a fleeing lizard, lobster, or starfish.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry autotomy
  • Love and hate, male and female, lobster salad and champagne: this is Byron's object-world in genial rolling flux.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry object world
  • Putting the lobster in your little mouthie.1989, Daniel Pinkwater, “Psychopathia Snacksualis”, in Fish Whistle: Commentaries, Uncommontaries and Vulgar Excesses, Addison-Wesley…. From the entry mouthie
  • When the bag was opened, the fish immediately swam among the falling lobsters and nosed the lobsters as they were descending.1985, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints (volume 1). From the entry ulua
  • Its below decks layout has been redesigned to suit its role as a modern wetline or rock lobster fishing boat.1983, Australian Fisheries, volume 42, page 35. From the entry wetline
  • Marriage was the switchback, the giant racer, the lobster teas, the guarantee that one would never be alone.1934, Graham Greene, chapter 4, in It’s a Battlefield, library edition, London: William Heinemann, published 1959, →OCLC, page 171. From the entry switchback
  • At risk were local wildlife — migratory birds and the capelin and lobster that local fish harvesters rely on for their livelihoods.2025 December 29, Lindsay Jones, “A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard's biggest-ever operation. Crews at mercy of the…. From the entry container
  • It features kona abalone, heart of palm, lobster bisque, green beans, kuzumochi, tenderloin with onion soy sauce, duck with foie gras sauce and much more.2021 April 25, Dining Out (Honolulu Star-Advertiser), page 17. From the entry kuzumochi
  • " The two asymmetric claws of the lobster were known as the pincher and the clumper, and the clumper was always bigger .2014, Simon Wills, Lifeboatmen. From the entry clumper
  • When purchased in the grocery store, frozen lobster tails packed in special vacuum packs can have an extended shelf life of twenty-four months.2010, Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, page 552. From the entry vacuum pack
  • These delicacies are widely exported and are also part of the Island's cuisine along with fresh fish, lobsters, Manx lamb, kippers and bonnag.2001, Trevor Kneale, Derek Croucher, The Isle of Man, page 96. From the entry bonnag
  • Food ranges from steak to lobster and around in that orbit, with a hearty salad bar that lures a lot of the local folk.1987, Margaret Zellers, Fielding's Caribbean, 1987, page 561. From the entry viewful
  • The seafood-centric barstaurant will have a few specials (lobster ravioli with beurre blanc, anyone?) plus the usual seafood towers, and the excellent bar staff will keep the drinks flowing.2022 December 20, Nikita Richardson, “A Plan for Every Kind of New Year’s Eve”, in The New York Times. From the entry barstaurant
  • We even took our coats off during lunch — that’s how warm it was — the better to dig into our lobster roll and the restaurant’s signature fries.2021 January 20, Diane Bair, Pamela Wright, “Food and love are a great match in Portland, Maine. But does it make sense to go in winter?”…. From the entry sugar and spice

Meaning of lobster

  1. noun A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
  2. noun A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
  3. noun A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).

Full definition of lobster

Questions about lobster in a sentence

How do you use lobster in a sentence?
Lobster is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!”
What is a short sentence with lobster?
“A lobster has a pedunculate eye.”
What does lobster mean?
Lobster means a crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.

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