How to Use entrails in a Sentence

entrails

plural noun
  • The dogs, intrigued by the entrails, give themselves a good roll in the filth.
    Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Avoid piercing the entrails or spine and spilling blood.
    Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Don’t track blood/entrails/feces in through the front door!
    Josh Lieb, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Take those measurements, perhaps swirl them with the entrails of a goat, and out pops a score.
    David McCloskey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Within a day or two, the masks would be covered in fish blood and entrails and rendered useless.
    Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • When preparing them for the table, the trick is to remove the entrails, then cut the fish into steaks about 2 inches thick.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 15 Sep. 2021
  • In one meal, which Nathaniel Philbrick describes, the crew held down a tortoise, cut it open, drank its blood, then started a fire in the tortoise’s shell and cooked it all—including the entrails.
    Cyler Conrad, Scientific American, 27 Nov. 2020
  • That spacious fish cleaning station has been popular with Cleveland area anglers, and should help to keep stinky fish entrails out of the dumpsters in the area.
    D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 8 July 2021
  • In 2012 Gezari led a team that observed, with unprecedented detail, a tidal disruption event—a tame name for a black hole ripping apart the entrails of a star that got too close.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Nor does Edmonds overlook the many methods of scrying for signs and portents in the flight of birds, the entrails of sacrificed animals, sneezes, twitches, moles, and casting dice.
    Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
  • Inspect the cavity for any remaining entrails, and remove anything that isn’t meat or bones.
    Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The Italianate structure is adjacent to the section of Main Street where local high school juniors and seniors gather each October to smash pumpkins and sled down the slick entrails of the gourds.
    cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • But Gardner later walks along the beach and stumbles upon another frightening sight: corpses with their entrails ripped out.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • There were suggestions that some had found their way into the entrails of the stadium, reaching as far as Old Trafford’s sanctum sanctorum, the home team’s changing room.
    New York Times, 2 May 2021
  • Narvi’s entrails are available because cruel gods transformed his brother Vali into a wolf, who then devoured Narvi.
    James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • Warm temperatures can cause trout to deteriorate and spoil fast, but removing the entrails will slow that process.
    Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The slurry of fish parts is then flushed down a sanitary sewer, eliminating the long-time problem of foul-smelling fish entrails in garbage cans, along the shoreline or discarded into the water.
    cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Studio accountants will soon gather, muttering, around the box-office returns, like ancient priests inspecting the entrails of a sheep.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In his canvases, Mr. Nitsch used materials including blood and pig entrails in addition to acrylics.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Within that small package are entrails that nearly defy the laws of physics, producing far more substantial sound than the Level’s compact dimensions suggest.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Protesters left deer entrails on the mayor’s car and hired detectives to trail White Buffalo’s sharpshooters, who began wearing bulletproof vests.
    Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Hybrids are popular these days: cars that run on electricity and gas, people who run on pig hearts and other animal entrails, journalists who blend fact, fiction and malevolence.
    Dave Shiflett, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Etruscan priests prophesied by looking at the entrails of animals, their narration was mediated through their energy.
    Vogue, 12 July 2021
  • Dogpatch neighborhood was reportedly named for the packs of strays that hunted for scraps from a now extinct row of nearby slaughterhouses, where industrial meat operations could discard entrails into marshes and mudflats.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021

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