How to Use offal in a Sentence

offal

noun
  • Herbs in the crisp fritter balance the funk of the offal.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This new menu was heavy on fish, birds, and offal—but no steak.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The butchers were allowed to keep the offal for their troubles.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But what’s a little blood sausage and offal in a town that eats menudo for breakfast?
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The man was pestilence, a virus, a stinking glob of human offal.
    Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Here, most of the dishes have been borrowed from famous French chefs, and the food is old-school — the sort that’s not afraid of cream or offal.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The head, tail, and all the off-cuts (offal), making up a fifth quarter, were left to butchers and poor people.
    oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The food truck serves pig offal, which has been proven to contain high levels of nandrolone.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 15 June 2021
  • The only beef comes in the form of offal: a silky mousse of veal brains with black truffles and a sauce crème, and sweetbreads in a Madeira demi-glace.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Diners in U.S. cities were beginning to nibble around the edge of offal.
    Kate Krader, Bloomberg.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • All the tacos are great, but the crispy tripa ($2.40), or crunchy bits of offal showered with onion and cilantro wrapped in a supple corn tortilla, will change your life.
    Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 19 Oct. 2017
  • So, what about Dallas' classic snout-to-tail and offal-based dishes?
    Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The wolves scattered the bones, starting that first spring, their faces perpetually crimson with the offal of the corpses.
    Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • Certainly in France, the offal is used in elegant ways, the liver, the kidney.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The centerpiece of the meal is the haggis: a peppery of offal and oatmeal, cooked in a sheep’s stomach and served with neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes).
    Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
  • The organ meats, often called offal, are much less common in the Western diet.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But some researchers think this could be the opportunity for offal to make a comeback of sorts.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The dish at Attari amazed her because the offal, while quite common in the Middle East, is too rarely served in America in restaurants of any kind.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • But beans and offal hold zero appeal atop a gallon of Rioja and 16 gin-tónics.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
  • China, the largest buyer of U.S. pork offal, placed tariffs on American pork this year.
    Benjamin Parkin, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • The choices, which cover all manner of meat, offal, seafood, vegetable, noodles, and bean curd, can be dizzying.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the chicken heart and gizzard salad ($14), the offals are well mixed (or disguised) with whole new potatoes, peas, pickles cut into thin coins, chopped olives and aioli.
    Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018
  • Footage from the Legislative Yuan showed offal lying on the parliament's red floor, and on some lawmakers' clothes.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Yun cheung, on the other hand, is mostly made with offal from poultry, giving it a stronger and gamier flavor.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Salmon with lardons-studded lentils gets a surf-and-turf accent from a chicken liver sauce that’s a sauce chasseur with chicken and duck offal.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • In classic Walter White style, Michael stumbles onto an excuse, claiming the meat is offal that their butcher had set aside as a treat for their dog.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2021
  • Haggis-type foods were designed to cook and preserve quick-spoiling offal from a butchered animal.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Frog legs, offal and escargot at fine dining establishments are prepared by some of the world’s top chefs.
    Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The shop also sells wine, salads, seasonings, side dishes and offal.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Trippa alla Romana is a classic and beloved dish of cucina povera, in which offal takes the spotlight from more-expensive cuts.
    Luke Pyenson, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023

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