Oyster Bay
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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His Palm Beach compound languished for six years and required $22 million in price cuts before it was sold, while his sprawling Oyster Bay compound on Long Island was recently taken off the market.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
Another role is as an "oyster organiser", which entails sorting, cleaning and categorising oysters freshly harvested from Great Oyster Bay.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
Heuermann lives in Massapequa Park, a community just north of South Oyster Bay and the sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach where skeletal remains were found along a remote oceanfront highway in 2010 and 2011.
From Washington Times • Jul. 14, 2023
In 1942, at age 68, the deteriorating vessel was towed to Vancouver Island’s Oyster Bay to be scuttled as a breakwater.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022
The 707 slammed into the estate owned by the father of the tennis champion John McEnroe, in the posh Long Island town of Oyster Bay.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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