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How to use fillet in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun, verb

Fillet means a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration. Example: “She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.”

Examples of fillet by meaning

nounA headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

  • She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, Mew York, published 2007, page 42

nounA colored or gilded border.

  • Fairer than gods and naked as the moon, The foamy fillets at their ankles strewn Less marble-white than they1911, George Sterling, The Swimmers

More sentences with fillet

  • A quality fillet knife makes cleaning fish a simple task after a day of fishing.2019 December 6, “Three Great Fillet Knives for Any Angler”, in Marlin Magazinen, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025. From the entry fillet knife
  • Keep that in mind when searching for a fillet knife; find one with strength, length and sharpness.2019 December 6, “Three Great Fillet Knives for Any Angler”, in Marlin Magazinen, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025. From the entry fillet knife
  • Besides bondline thickness control, the adhesive fillet (called adhesive spew) is an important issue in joint assembly.2018, Sergio T. Amancio Filho, Jorge F. dos Santos, Lucian-Attila Blaga, Joining of Polymer-Metal Hybrid Structures: Principles and…. From the entry spew
  • The fillet was a serious ting – the thickness was there.2016 December 9, Adam Boult, quoting Elijah Quashie, “These brilliant videos about London's takeaway chicken shops are a YouTube hit”, in…. From the entry nang
  • The spew is represented by a triangular fillet 0.5 mm high.2012, R. D. Adams, Structural Adhesive Joints in Engineering, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry spew
  • Season the fish fillets with salt and pepper and roll in the oatflakes.2012, Rae Walter in association with First Edition Translations Ltd, transl., Fish & Seafood: More Than 200 Basic Recipes and Variations…. From the entry oatflake
  • He took the remaining fillet from the fridge and slid it off the plate, into the bin.2010, Roddy Doyle, “Blood”, in Neil Gaiman, Al Sarrantonio, editors, Stories: All-new Tales, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company…. From the entry wheelie
  • It serves seafood, but it's the porterhouse and eye fillets that jump off the plates here.2002, Paul Smitz, Tasmania, page 134. From the entry eye fillet
  • The catfish fillet is hot and flaky inside, a hot blobular doughnut.1998, Frank Chin, Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays, University of Hawaii Press, page 21. From the entry blobular
  • Skin the fish before cooking since the skin shrinks as it cooks and misshapens the fillets.1997, Kay Pastorius, Cruising Cuisine: Fresh Food From the Galley, Camden, Me.: International Marine, a division of The McGraw-Hill…. From the entry misshapen
  • Fish fillets can be garnished with a lemon-yogurt sauce for a fishwich.1986, Audrey Tittle Cross, Nutrition for the working woman, page 133. From the entry fishwich
  • While von Sackler and Janet helped themselves to seconds on soup, Calista started deepfrying the fish fillets.1986, Kathryn Lasky Knight, Trace Elements, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry deepfry
  • May I tempt you to a little more filleted lemon sole, miss Dubedat?1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry bedad
  • Heraldic writers give the fillet as a diminutive of the chief.1903, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A-ZYM, page 694. From the entry per chief
  • In my experience, the best fillet knife is the Victorinox.2023 December 27, Ben Kepka, “The 6 Best Fillet Knife Reviewed in 2025 – Buyers Guide”, in Fly Fisher Pro, archived from the original on…. From the entry filleting knife
  • We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 37, column 1. From the entry Moreton Bay bug
  • The knight at Chaddesley Corbett even wears the same combination of fillet around the coif and cervelliere underneath (Figure 32).2017, RachelAnn Dressler, Of Armor and Men in Medieval England: The Chivalric Rhetoric of Three English Knights' Effigies, Routledge…. From the entry cervelliere
  • There, we picked up some filleted herring and a loaf of Russian borodinskii bread made with rye, barley, molasses and coriander.2014 February 18, Marcia Vanderlip, “Olympic feast: A Russian (and Ukrainian) way to celebrate the athletes in Sochi”, in Columbia Daily…. From the entry borodinskii bread
  • Goujonettes should be thin; if your fillet is thicker than ¾ inch, cut it horizontally into 2 layers.2003, James Peterson, Essentials of Cooking, page 6. From the entry goujonette
  • Producers of boneless cured herring, maties, fillets, and delikatessen.1961, Fisheries Year-Book and Directory, page 249. From the entry delikatessen
  • Or you could steal the simple trick of spreading curry paste over salmon fillets before cooking for an immediate and quite dramatic flavor boost.2023 January 13, Emily Weinstein, “What I'm Excited to Cook This Year”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry must-try
  • Having had dozens of filleting knives over the years, we’ve learned what makes a worthy filleting knife to add to the kitchen.2023 December 27, Ben Kepka, “The 6 Best Fillet Knife Reviewed in 2025 – Buyers Guide”, in Fly Fisher Pro, archived from the original on…. From the entry filleting knife
  • I was filleted to be honest.quoted in 2017, Edward Couzens-Lake, Norwich City The Nineties He'd had enough, later admitting to Rick Waghorn in his excellent book 12…. From the entry filleted
  • The food is first-class, with the emphasis on Italian dishes: delicious wood-fired pizzas, pastas, and a pitch-perfect fillet steak with delicious crinkle-cut chips.2012 April 27, Charlotte Williamson, “Mexico: Journey to the end of the earth”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London…. From the entry pitch-perfect
  • My parents then roasted, baked and grilled the fillets for months without ever tiring of what my mother called their “sweet, oceany taste.”2009 August 12, Melissa Clark, “Bluefish With a Crunchy Bite”, in The New York Times. From the entry oceany
  • The Chinese raise pork in large quantities, but prefer to eat it in the form of cutlets, fillet, ribs, and so on.[2006, “Hot & Cold Appetizers”, in Culina Mundi, Könemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 142, column 2. From the entry Chin-hua
  • Fillets of perch gratineeed over silky homemade noodles, and salmon or chicken poached in riesling, then glossed with a sheer cream sauce, couldn't be better.1999 November 21, “Alsace, Where German Gemtlichkeit Meets French Finesse”, in The New York Times. From the entry gratinéeed
  • Amulets and ape-buckles, zones and fillets.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry gaud
  • I don’t want anyone to be able to say, oh, I see where he got this idea to put microgreens on top of his fish fillets.”2007 June 6, Katherine Wheelock, “Dinner at the Foodies’: Purslane and Anxiety”, in New York Times. From the entry microgreen
  • A nice woman at the fishmonger in Earl’s Court Road—she had to walk miles to find a fish shop—told her how to cook the fillets of plaice she bought.1990, Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Light Years, Simon and Schuster, published 1995, →ISBN, page 294. From the entry fishmonger
  • The hair is worn, either parted on the side or in the middle, and is held with a jeweled band or a fillet of ribbon which is most effective.1915 February, “Told in the Boudoir: Concerning Coiffures in General and in Particular”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair…. From the entry chic
  • Also local bluefish, filleted and grilled alongside a few lengths of chourico, the garlicky pork sausage that is made in nearby New Bedford by the great-great-grandchildren of Portuguese whaling men.2003 July 30, Sam Sifton, “A Perfect Change-Up: Bluefish, Sausage and Clams”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry chouriço

Meaning of fillet

  1. noun A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.
  2. noun A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
  3. noun A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.

Full definition of fillet

Questions about fillet in a sentence

How do you use fillet in a sentence?
Fillet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She was talking of Raymond Duncan, a walking absurdity who dressed in an ancient handwoven Greek costume and wore his hair in long braids reaching to his waist, adding, on ceremonial occasions, a fillet of bay-leaves.”
What is a short sentence with fillet?
“Amulets and ape-buckles, zones and fillets.”
What does fillet mean?
Fillet means a headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

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