How to Use squab in a Sentence

squab

noun

• Turn the squab and spoon the pan juices over for 1 minute.
  — ExpressNews.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• Give it a couple hours to open up and serve it with squab.
  — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2021
• Hopefully the cats will stay away and the young squabs will survive.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
• Then on to the kitchen where Malabar made theater of the preparation of the sack of headless squabs Ben had brought.
  — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• The squab carcasses are used to create the soup in an earlier course.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Probably one of the most brilliant pairings was the fifth course with the squab which was dry aged, smoked, and prepared with a plum sauce and sticky rice.
  — Liz Thach, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The main course on my last visit earlier this month was squab, cooked on a smoker set out back of the restaurant.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Dove or pigeon is more commonly called squab in the culinary world.
  — ExpressNews.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• The fact that the lamb chops were flown in from Australia and the squab from California is proudly advertised.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
• The poor passenger will perch atop a sculpted squab that has more in common with a horse-saddle than a comfy chair.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2010
• And like any theatrical production, one of its cast members, the squab, appears in two acts.
  — Fortune, 29 Sep. 2019
• The standout item on the menu was the risotto which had an unrivaled rich flavor served alongside tender squab.
  — Rana Good, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• What sounds like a gimmick turns out to be luscious, and a first course of either chawanmushi or roast squab underscores a kitchen steeped in the classics.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
• Rye will serve a seven-course menu Feb. 14 with oyster French onion soup, caviar cannoli, pad Thai terrine, squab, rack of lamb and crème brûlée.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
• The chefs are tasked with creating a dish featuring either quail, duck, squab, turkey, or chukar (a type of partridge).
  — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
• For the first elimination challenge, the chefs needed to prepare a dish featuring one of five birds: quail, squab, duck, turkey or chukar.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021
• The menu called for the indomitable credit men to eat cream of new asparagus, Philadelphia squab, and assorted cakes.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• In the entree round, the judges are eager to find out if the chefs can wing it with squab, a young domestic pigeon, and the dessert round puzzle includes a wild pizza pie and purple tuber yam.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2020
• Then on Valentine’s Day, diners can enjoy a seven-course menu with oyster French onion soup, caviar cannoli, pad Thai terrine, squab, rack of lamb and crème brûlée.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Calling to me in winter are smoked squab breast with roasted chanterelles and venison paired with red cabbage and roasted squash, dishes that highlight the kitchen’s classic saucing.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• Others, including squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, channel a grand French restaurant.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• Entrees include multiple game dishes like guinea fowl, venison and squab.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• This $2090 upgrade allows the front occupants to adjust things like height and positions, of course, as well as squab inclination and depth, as well as lumbar support level and the side bolsters.
  — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 13 Nov. 2021
• Though pigeon or squab has been the traditional poultry of choice, easier modern versions substitute chicken in the pie.
  — Casey Barber, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• Pinckney was at the dinner that night, trying to acknowledge and refute history over watermelon brandy, chowchow, shrimp pie, chapon chasseur, and truffled squab served with silver ewers of walnut ketchup.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• Glasse’s elaborate recipe—not included here—involved boning various birds (turkey, goose, chicken, partridge, squab) and stuffing one inside the other before encasing the lot in a sturdy piecrust.
  — Heller McAlpin, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
• According to documents obtained by Town & Country, the menu consisted of popular dishes of the time, including Atlantic pompano amandine, roast squab, artichoke with vegetable puree, and a hearts of palm salad with Brie.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2019
• After all, if everyone had their own squab accessory, his would become as unremarkable as an actual pigeon.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024