abalones
- plural of abalone.
Example Sentences
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He recalled dishes considered delicacies such as donkey meat and abalones - a type of mollusc - being flown in from Pyongyang.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2023
“Chinese people like to eat these expensive foods like sea cucumbers and abalones at our Lunar New Year family gatherings because we have worked very hard over the past year,” Fong said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022
The traditional dish known as “poon choi,” or “basin food,” is a large dish filled with lotus root, radish, taro and more expensive delicacies such as prawns, abalones and meat layered on top.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2022
For centuries, fishermen have carved their homes into the bluffs, like bird’s nests, plucking abalones and sailing out for bamboo crabs.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2016
Along its sides were great numbers of red abalones and very few starfish, so before the sun was high I filled the bottom of the canoe.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
