Around the world, competitive oyster shucking has come of age.

The first thing to consider is the shucking of the bivalves.

"Just a little nutty for shucking it all and moving down here."

She might get some of her boys to go down into your cornfield and do a little shucking.

Hundreds more work in the shucking and packing houses, or fish for oysters part time.

She peeled off his trousers like shucking corn.

Sulu was never one to object to the shucking of ceremony and protocol whenever an opportunity to do so presented itself.

"Men used to follow the harvest of grain from Texas to Canada, shucking wheat, threshing it.

Efficiencies not practiced in the past, she said, now include on-board shucking of the state's large catch of ocean clams.

But the lawmakers' partisan shucking of responsibility for the rising tide of red ink promises to be exquisitely hypocritical this time around.

There were constant bits of sound like the bronchial call of a nightbird or the breath and shucking of some unseen predator.

Normally in late October, he said, his shucking room would be filled with two dozen women standing at the white tile tables shucking oysters.

When he finally stepped forth from his cocoon, and crossed to Lincoln, hand outstretched, the President said, "Was there ever such a small nubbin after so much shucking?"

It is a polemic that exults in the president's shucking of "half a century's worth of conventional wisdom about the Middle East and the world," a polemic that celebrates the younger Bush as the right man for his job.

Miss Gould's aversion to indirection, which Ross is said to have shared, helps explain something central to what was long thought of as The New Yorker's voice, something that Daniel Menaker, who worked there as an editor for 26 years, describes as "a deliberate shucking of sophistication."

He would get home, shuck the car, and go outside.

Of course, they were dead if he shucked his weapons, too.

Certainly, I was in the right place to shuck off civilization.

I have only one thing to say to them: I've already shucked the corn.

Or, will he shuck the party entirely and run as an independent?

But to shuck the suit might be far more dangerous.

Hence the need for more hands, young or old, to shuck.

I went into the bedroom and shucked out of my clothes.

His own uniform was soon in their way, and she helped him shuck it off.

All he wanted was to get home and shuck his wet coat.

These are shucked on order at this restaurant known for many years as Jason's.

She laid the little girl on the floor and began to shuck her own burden.

Will shucked off his coat and handed it to the man.

He shucked his coat and tossed it on the bed.

She could shuck off my control if she wanted to.

She shucked off the rope as though it had not existed.

"Just a little nutty for shucking it all and moving down here."

Then, without so much as turning a hair, she shucked off the sweatshirt.

She went into the house and found her mother in the kitchen, sitting at the table, shucking peas.

"Yes mother," Philip said as he shucked down his pants and left them on the ground.

I set a record shucking my clothes and wading in.

The others, still inside, were shucked from the hatch by the rope they held.

We're making all the men shuck off their clothes before we put them below decks.

Will Henry was again shuck by the youth and vulnerability of the boy.

He walked down the hall, shucking his jacket, and into the bedroom.