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
  • These turn out to be the pickled skirt trimmed from a scallop — shellfish offal.
    Pete Wells, New York Times, 19 Sep. 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
  • Of all the offal, this one's perhaps the easiest to stomach (apologies for the awful pun).
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
  • 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
  • There’s an offal of the day, priced generously to reflect the cheaper cut.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • 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
  • In the thick atmosphere, stray dogs fight with seabirds for scraps of offal and urinate against the barrels of blood and salt water where waiting fish float.
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Many bear problems happen around hunting camps and fly-in fishing sites because the bears get used to finding offal and garbage there.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Menudo is the ultimate peasant dish, made with the once undesired offal meat of a butchered animal.
    Sarah Mosqueda, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Currently, those direct-to-consumer producers sell about $2 billion worth of offal in the U.S., Lambert said.
    Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025

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