How to Use tamale in a Sentence

tamale

noun

• There are two to a tamale to make sure the tamale dough doesn’t spill out.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2023
• The smell of chicken soup and homemade tamales filled the air.
  — New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
• For the duck tamale, it had been infused into the lard.
  — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Drive-thru hot tamale meals will be sold from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2021
• This recipe from Ivy Manning makes about 60 tamales, and can be prepped the day before the game.
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2020
• Sotelo’s father would wrap the meat in maguey leaves like a tamale.
  — Nikki O'Neill, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2023
• The choice was the tamale, long a tradition in the Arkansas Delta.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Mar. 2021
• Knox, 86, has many lifelong menu favorites like the tacos and tamales.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 27 July 2019
• Harmon claims his father’s was the first tamale cart in Greenville.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Flautas lead to tacos, which lead to tamales made by a neighbor.
  — Melissa Hung, SFChronicle.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• My cousin recently showed me the tamale recipe my dad gave him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
• This is a dish that takes all the best parts of a tamale, ditches the corn husks, and makes it into a casserole.
  — cleveland, 9 June 2020
• Ditch the tired taco night for this new take on tamales, served as a spoonable one-skillet pie.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2023
• Wrap the tinfoil completely around the chips in a packet like a tamale.
  — Joe Difazio, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• That tamale is not a word, but tamal, singular, and tamales, plural, are.
  — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
• The event includes a Ferris wheel; booths of tacos, tamales and tostadas; and artists performing on three stages.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023
• The origins of her Famous Hot Tamales can be traced to a tamale recipe she was given by the aunt of her husband, James.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 22 Aug. 2023
• At the time, the only job available at Lopez Bakery was making tamales.
  — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• The restaurant is also bringing the tamale goodness to your doorsteps with the choice of delivery.
  — Brayden Garcia, Dallas News, 18 Dec. 2020
• For about 10 years, her parents were street vendors, selling tamales from a cart.
  — Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2023
• There will even be a window where guests can watch the staff flip and press freshly homemade corn tortillas and tamales.
  — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Gabriella's menu includes sweet corn and wild mushroom tamale, short rib grilled cheese and risotto.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 27 Sep. 2020
• Soon Richardson was bellying up to the bar to order a tamale and posole next to a group of friends and lunch regulars.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Imagine a tamale made of green banana and root vegetable masa that is stuffed with savory meat or seafood, and then deep fried.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Or for more savory bites, order the tamales, huevos rancheros or some chorizo con papas.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Lately, her customers are buzzing about the politics of tamales.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• To try his prison-style tamales, look up @prisonpiesaz on Instagram to find his food truck locations.
  — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
• Friday Night Tamales use Ashkenazic beef tzimmes (a stew of meat and fruit) as the tamale filling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The pork tamale was, as to be expected, the meatiest and most satisfying.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2021
• Life begins to change after Cootie is glimpsed by a man who lives in a house on stilts and can see into Cootie’s yard and drops by to offer tamales.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024