How to Use fugu in a Sentence

fugu

noun

• Last year, a warm winter led to smaller and more scarce fugu.
  — Paul Takahashi, Houston Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• There are 50 species of pufferfish, also known as fugu.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
• What then of fugu chefs and their years devoted to training?
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• Tiger blowfish is supposed to be the most delicious kind of fugu.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2018
• The five packets of fugu that triggered the alarm in Gamagori were sold with their livers still in place, Agence France-Presse reports.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 16 Jan. 2018
• There is Nippon, the stage where, since 1963, soba, fugu and other things have danced into the city’s consciousness.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Pumpkin toadlets are poisonous, secreting the same toxin found in fugu, or puffer fish.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 May 2021
• Search [fugu poison] to find that the poison is tetrodotoxin, aka TTX or tetrodox, and is found primarily in the liver of the puffer fish.
  — Ken Denmead, WIRED, 9 Nov. 2011
• The fugu genome gave geneticists a valuable point of comparison to the human genome.
  — Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018
• Nippon sends it out with chives and a spicy daikon mash, which complement its quiet flavor, and cooked fragments of fugu, which don’t.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2018
• Indeed, the mere hint of danger — rather like eating poisonous fugu fish from a reputable sushi bar in Tokyo — may well have added to the overall exhilaration of the evening.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• Debates have gone back and forth for years in Japanese society over the regulation of fugu.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
• While some fish of this species are edible when handled correctly — like fugu, a delicacy in Japan — this one is not.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• In fact, eating fugu is so dangerous that it was outlawed in the 16th century, though many secretly kept the tradition alive.
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2021
• The horse meat and fugu flavors are vegan, and casu marzu is vegetarian.
  — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
• Pufferfish, or fugu, is an expensive delicacy often served in the form of paper-thin sashimi slices.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 16 Jan. 2018
• Tunnel through the swarm and razzle-dazzle, the urgent flashing cries for everything from Asahi to fugu (blowfish) joints, and make your way to the comparatively sedate red-on-yellow façade of Creo-ru.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
• Their saliva contains the potent nerve toxin tetrodotoxin, the same compound that makes California newts, harlequin frogs, and fugu pufferfish liver so deadly.
  — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• The Hiramatsu puts a particular focus on food—the hotel actually started out as a restaurant—and makes use of local produce on Shima to curate a unique menu from spiny lobster, fugu (puffer fish), ormers and rock oysters.
  — Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• Many people worry that raw-milk cheese is a kind of edible petri dish of contagion and disease, a dangerous delicacy not unlike Japanese fugu, the poisonous blowfish, which, if not prepared expertly, can kill you.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• Unlike fugu, Japan’s riskiest delicacy, lionfish is harmless.
  — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018

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