Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Oyster Bay

American  

noun

  1. a town on the N shore of Long Island, in SE New York. Theodore Roosevelt homestead nearby.


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

“I have this fear of writing something that’s not good,” he said in an interview last month at his estate in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Investigators were continuing to search Heuermann’s home, about a 25-minute drive across a causeway spanning South Oyster Bay to the sandy stretch known as Gilgo Beach where the remains were found in 2010 and 2011.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2023

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

When Roosevelt was a sophomore in college, his father died of cancer, and he retreated to his family’s country home in Oyster Bay, New York.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple