Sentence examples for The shucks from inspiring English sources
noun
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
Harvest your pecans after the shucks open.
If you have a suitable knife, you can slice through the ear at the base and peel the shucks towards the top.
You may be able to snap off the top of the cob with your hand as you're pulling the shucks down as well.
When I stop, I can hear the shuck of surf on stones.
The first thing to consider is the shucking of the bivalves.
Vinny, the shuck-and-jive hipster who prowls the mean streets of Long Beach.
Hundreds more work in the shucking and packing houses, or fish for oysters part time.
Shivers of suspense traveled up and down my spine as I watched the shucking of oysters, which never looks easy to me, particularly when I noticed the bandages on the fingers of the fellow doing the shucking.
A third is to leave the shucking to the fishmonger (although you will lose a bit of the moisture and freshness on the journey home).
The soldier has the shucked, wondering look of a man who is just realizing that he has shed his old skin.
