How to Use epicurean in a Sentence

epicurean

adjective

• The truth is that even within that frenzy of epicurean highs, there were the seeds of our collapse.
  — Stephanie Danler, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• An overindulgent owner, too, may take a perverse pride in a cat’s epicurean tastes and cater to it.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• It’s the perfect gift for the epicurean little one who prefers mortadella to bologna.
  — Bon Appétit, 29 Oct. 2021
• The meatloaf was a home not just for scraps but for spices that connected it to the cook’s epicurean ancestry.
  — Frank Bruni and Jennifer Steinhauer, Bon Appetit, 6 Mar. 2017
• The 1970s was a crazy era for epicurean delights, and the centerpiece of that movement was surely French onion soup mix.
  — Nora Martinez Debenedetto, OregonLive.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• The denizens of r/RawMeat seem to skew young and male, and their forum unfurls like a pamphlet for a profound new epicurean crusade.
  — Luke Winkie, Bon Appétit, 31 Aug. 2022
• Set in the Bay Area’s epicurean underworld, Sloan’s novel is a playful, odd tale about food as a sustainer of life in its many forms.
  — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Since the early aughts, Casa Lever was another must-stop on this epicurean circuit.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 14 June 2023
• The grains allowed are the Nordic type of rye, wholegrain, barley and oats. Fermented fish and dairy add to the epicurean experience.
  — NBC News, 22 June 2018
• And Aslan’s show does evoke a few aspects of Bourdain’s epicurean travelogue.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 Feb. 2017
• That’s a lot of ground to cover, so plan your next Iberian epicurean trip accordingly.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2022
• Simeon also touches on the epicurean influences each group has added to the melting pot of modern-day Hawai’i.
  — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• On the east end, along Highway 101, is Buellton, which is quickly becoming an epicurean hub.
  — Matt Kettmann, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• But there is an exquisite edge to the discovery of this Epicurean library in Herculaneum, and it is honed not so much by the knowledge of what has been found as the fear of what might be lost.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2008
• The common denominator is that the guests all share an interest in culture, which extends to the epicurean world as well.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 29 June 2019
• Here’s a look at Yellen’s epicurean experience, with a price breakdown.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 10 July 2023
• Watch the full video below. Needless to say, those cabinets of Ben and Erin's are definitely giving us some ideas for our own epicurean abodes.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 6 July 2020
• That gourmand hook could make this the director’s most readily distributable work in some time, albeit on an epicurean scale.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• There’s a long-familiar tradition in film of refinement meshing with evil, as with the epicurean sadism of movie Nazis and arch-criminals.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
• Not everyone here can devote such brain space to epicurean concerns.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• Another dish resembles a sushi roll, except—in keeping with the spirit of epicurean derring-do—the filling involves dried plum and bacon, and the wrapping is a cut of wild boar.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
• My epicurean tastings started with a croissant which was perfect.
  — Linda Chase, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• The menu presents an appealing hybrid of old-world traditions—Mayan healing stones, clay wraps made of local herbs—as well as more modern, epicurean treatments.
  — Jessie Heyman, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2022
• In the Sámi hub of Jokkmokk, the reindeer herder and specialty meat purveyor works closely with Eva Gunnare, a local forager and cultural guide to bring guests on an epicurean journey.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2022
• In this way, escalating truffle prices aren’t just a benchmark for epicurean status.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2020
• Paul Bocuse, Lyon’s epicurean patron saint, who died in January at the age of 91, opened a new chapter in French cooking in his city 40 years ago as a founding father of la nouvelle cuisine.
  — Jay Cheshes, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• Pedersen created a citrus-cured, wild sea bass tartare topped with sea buckthorn and pomegranate caviar that delighted the judges for its epicurean flare.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 3 May 2022
• Its restaurant, Nar Lokanta, is a (deserved) favorite for its epicurean makeovers of traditional mezes.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2015
• Their epicurean goal was to whip up delectable stews, soups and chili incorporating St. Arnold’s beer.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2020
• The Chosen beat new epicurean horror-comedy The Menu, which is opening in 3,211 theaters, the widest release in the history of specialty label Searchlight.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024