How to Use turbot in a Sentence

turbot

noun

• In 1880, the yard launched the Livadia, a steam yacht in the shape of a turbot, for the tsar of Russia.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• To follow is a plate of turbot usuzukuri, sliced to translucence.
  — The Economist, 4 Oct. 2019
• There's also wood-fire grilled turbot and a sampling of Crudo.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 12 Feb. 2022
• The best dishes here are meant to be shared—including the whole turbot, or brat in old English—so bring plenty of hungry friends.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2022
• But their discussion over a dinner of scallops and turbot in Brussels didn’t break the deadlock.
  — Joe Mayes, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2020
• For a long, lazy lunch menu serve this pasta alongside sea bream crudo, tomatoes and haricots verts, grilled turbot, and tiramisù with cookies.
  — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
• Ojaste serves a tender fillet of turbot topped with the fish’s crispy skin that’s reminiscent of pork cracklings.
  — Sarah Kuta, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2022
• But the two dishes diners keep coming back for are the Blackmore wagyu flown in from Australia and the Spanish turbot, which has a deep golden crust of gruyere and is served in a velouté.
  — Dallas News, 16 June 2022
• Flatfish range in color from a speckled brown, black, and beige, like a black sea turbot; or spotted, like the blue-and-yellow peacock flounder.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2020
• On the menu, Cutraro says, customers may see fish that is not so familiar, such as dorado, tai snapper and turbot.
  — Sue Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2021
• The skin on turbot caught in Portugal is seared to a satisfying crackle on a plancha and served with a simple lemon vinaigrette.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• This fish group includes species familiar to seafood lovers—not only halibut, but flounder, sole, and turbot.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2016
• Hits include the Isle of Mull diver scallops with apple, Persian lemons and wasabi, whole roasted turbot and spinach and broccoli filo tart.
  — Shivani Vora, Robb Report, 18 July 2022
• Smaller species like the two-foot-long Greenland turbot will eat crabs, squid, and fish, while larger species, like the six-foot-long Atlantic halibut, will chase after cod, haddock, or even lobsters.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2020
• The Michelin Guide called out the restaurant’s sauces in particular, and said that inspectors were blown away by the turbot lightly glazed with a flavorful, velvety sauce.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
• Early on a recent Tuesday morning, about 50 merchants gathered around gray and red cartons containing species like turbot, hake and plaice and called out bids.
  — WSJ, 27 June 2018
• In a nod to the common Spanish and Portuguese combination of chorizo and white fish, halibut (or cod or turbot) is placed atop the deep-red chickpea mixture and baked until tender.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
• The eight-course tasting menu takes in delights such as Breton lobster ravioli, filet of turbot with a forest mushroom jus, and plum cake with vanilla ice cream and cinnamon sponge.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
• An epic turbot appeared — nearly three pounds of it! — dusted in flour and bronzed beneath an amandine hale of capers, nuts and brown butter lightened with fish stock that reaffirmed Vernick’s strong French roots.
  — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Orders of sea bass were often replaced by giant perch, Alaskan halibut by Greenland turbot, and Florida snapper by lavender jobfish, to name a few.
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
• The dinner was prepared by French chef Bruno Oger and included lobster salad, sweet almond velouté and baby vegetables followed by a turbot, celery, virgin leaf, shallot and walnut dish.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 22 May 2022
• Other Alaska species include Dungeness crab, king crab, snow crab and Tanners, geoduck clams, sablefish, herring, pollock, flounders, mackerel, perch and turbot.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2021
• The chef is always trying to find fishermen to bring him things most people aren’t familiar with, such as Diamond turbot, kelp crabs, California king crabs, sea cucumbers and jellyfish.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• The highlight was a massive turbot, the flat, shellfish-munching bottom-feeder whose eyes float arbitrarily on one side of its scaly, weird head (a special category of marine delicacy, fabulously ugly and fabulously delicious).
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 8 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024