How to Use peeler in a Sentence

peeler

noun

• Using a vegetable peeler, cut from the bud to the bottom of the spear until the spear is too thin to shave.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• Use a vegetable peeler to peel wide, long strips of just the orange part of the orange skin (or the green part of the lime skin, etc.).
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2022
• Peel the lemon zest in long strips with a vegetable peeler, making sure to avoid the bitter white pith.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2021
• Shave cheese with a vegetable peeler or very thinly slice, and add to bowl.
  — Sarah Karnasiewicz, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Using a vegetable peeler, remove the squash skin, then peel away long strips of flesh from the neck.
  — Kate Krader, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2021
• Using a vegetable peeler, shave the cheese over the salad.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
• Use a vegetable peeler to shave thin shards of pecorino over the salad.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
• Using a knife or a potato peeler, curl a rind of a lemon and twist over the glass before placing it in the glass.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Even when that something small and good is a vegetable peeler.
  — Longreads, 24 June 2022
• Cut each carrot in half, then use a vegetable peeler to start peeling the top half of the carrots.
  — Michelle Stark, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2022
• Break or cut the roots from the rhizomes, wash them, peel them with a vegetable peeler, wash again and slice them into pieces.
  — Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• With a peeler, cut an orange twist and express the oils into the cocktail.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• One of the most versatile kitchen tools is a vegetable peeler.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2024
• To get pretty curls, run a vegetable peeler along the long side of a chocolate baking bar.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2023
• Using a vegetable peeler, remove the zest from 1 large lime in strips, then very finely mince the zest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• To make lemon-zest strips, use a vegetable peeler to shave off the lemon’s thin outer peel, then cut this zest into strips.
  — Sunset Magazine, 1 July 2022
• Don’t forget to wash your ginger properly, and to peel it, simply use the back of a spoon or a peeler.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2023
• Use a paring knife or vegetable peeler to make two three-by-one-inch strips of orange peel.
  — Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2022
• While the water is heating, cut the broccoli stem from the head and use a vegetable peeler to peel the stem’s tough outer layer.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2021
• My chef knife is everything from a knife to a peeler to a muddler to a bottle opener.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• If the cucumber has waxed skin, the skin will have to be peeled with a vegetable peeler or chef’s knife prior to cutting.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• Instead of turning to your vegetable peeler, which will have a hard time with all the nooks and crannies of ginger root, use a spoon.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Mar. 2023
• Instructions: Using a vegetable peeler, peel the eggplant down the length of the fruit in stripes so that there are still stripes of peel in between.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• Using a knife or peeler, cut a disk of peel off an orange, about the size of a half-dollar and avoiding any of the orange’s flesh, just pith and peel.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2023
• Like produce buried deep in the ground, your peeler may not see the daylight after exploring this list.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 8 Feb. 2023
• Make the Oleo-Saccharum: Pull a vegetable peeler out of your gadget drawer, and peel all 12 lemons.
  — Ali Ramee, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
• Use a mandoline slicer, not a vegetable peeler, to cut the thinnest zucchini strips.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
• To create the long, thin ribbons of cucumber, use a Y-style vegetable peeler.
  — Adeena Sussman, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• After trimming the ends, use a vegetable peeler to peel lengthwise down the spear for long, fettuccine-like strips.
  — Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 16 Apr. 2022
• Use a sharp vegetable peeler to shave the asparagus down the length of the stalks, sort of like shaving the end of a pencil, shaving the whole thing up to the tip and letting the strips and the tips fall into the bowl with the peas.
  — Kathleen Purvis, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024