Sentence examples for shuck from inspiring English sources

Just as he was achieving recognition in Britain he left for America as a protégé of John Ashbery, a leader of the avant-garde New York School.In his new book, Mr Ash writes that he moved to Istanbul partly to be in a land of Muslim calls to prayer, "to shuck responsibility, to imagine I was not Western, not Christian and free".

That would buy time in which he might hope to shuck off the damaging legacy of Mr Prodi's final months.

Or an Oyster Roast: "Shuck at your own risk".

When I stop, I can hear the shuck of surf on stones.

At Saffire, in Tasmania, seafood-lovers after interactive escapades, can learn how to shuck oysters for no extra charge.

Serves 6 18 oysters 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 2 red chillies, sliced 2 spring onions, finely chopped 2 tbsp fish sauce 2 tbsp lime juice 1½ tbsp caster sugar First, shuck the oysters.

He feels that more oysters would be eaten if they weren't so hard to shuck.

I'll call you Aphrodite and smell the sea in your hair and shuck oysters for you from the depths.

He'd shuck off his forbidding and strange persona just for me, they said, and sink back into an immobilizing fury once I'd left.

His nickname, after all, is "the Teflon taoiseach" (pronounced, roughly, "tea-shuck", meaning prime minister).In this section The euro's in-and-out club Italians and the KGB so what?

His mother grew up sleeping on a corn-shuck mattress and brushing her teeth with twigs.