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How to use kebab in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Kebab means a hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab. Example: “Let's go to the kebab after the club.”

Examples of kebab by meaning

nounA dish made from shaped minced meat, usually grilled on a skewer but sometimes formed into a patty and fried or baked.

  • A kebab that is also popular in Iran and Afghanistan is shammi kebab - a disk-shaped patty resembling a hamburger made of spiced ground meat and chickpeas beaten until they are light and airy and lightly sautéed in a pan.2013 September 9, Bruce Kraig, Colleen Taylor Sen, Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing...

nounA restaurant that sells kebabs.

  • Let's go to the kebab after the club.

verbTo stab or skewer.

  • I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.2003, Julian Roup, A Fisherman in the Saddle, page 32
  • A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 343

More sentences with kebab

  • Today we’re having slow-cooked lamb nihari, sag aloo, lentil dal, pilau rice, green salad and seekh kebab.2015 July 6, Helen Pidd, “Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox?”, in The Guardian. From the entry nihari
  • They specialise in dishes from the Gaziantep region in south-east Turkey synonymous with kebabs.2005 December 17, Sudi Pigott, “Istanbul on a plate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry steak tartare
  • On the corner there are three men standing behind flaming barbecues of shashlik kebabs.1996, Sophia Creswell, chapter 20, in Sam Golod, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry shashlik
  • Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside.1991, I. F. La Croix, E. A. S. La Croix, T. M. La Croix, “Malaŵi: Climate and Geography”, in Orchids of Malaŵi: The Epiphytic and…. From the entry spit
  • His kitchen has its own doner kebab machine.2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London). From the entry commissioning editor
  • The halal snack pack has long been a staple of Australian takeaway shops, if a little overshadowed by the kebab.2016, Michael Safi, Elle Hunt, Josh Wall, The halal snack pack: a fast track to a heart attack? Or worse?, The Guardian. From the entry halal snack pack
  • Ketty wanted one of those healthy kebabs, so we walked down to the kebab shop on Hanmore Park High Street.2013, Sophie McKenzie, The Medusa Project Collection. From the entry shish
  • Walking in the face of skiffing rain he was almost past the kebab shop before he realised it.2009, John Morgan, Giddyblue, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry skiff
  • “Donner kebab,” Paul said as if it was a refrain.2009, John Morgan, Giddyblue, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry skiff
  • Tastes meatilicious and is very good kebabbed.2008, Allegra McEvedy, “The Chicken: Breaking Down Your Bird”, in Leon: Ingredients & Recipes, Conran Octopus, →ISBN. From the entry meatilicious
  • Order the Indian Masala tea with appetizers (spicy chicken wings, vegetable kebabs or vegetable fritters) and sweet cheese balls for dessert.1994, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 20, number 11, page 24. From the entry zafrani
  • Princess Jeeta fed me dozens of the hot kebabs I loved, which I coated with mango chutney and wrapped in chapati.1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 4, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry chapati
  • I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”1981, Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry shish kebab
  • Most modern spit-roasters have attachments for kebab skewers, and this is the best way of cooking these delicious foods.1972, Bee Nilson, “Spit-Roasting”, in Fondue, Flambé and Side Table Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, Inc, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry spit-roaster
  • Shish kebab is skewered lamb with rice on the side.1945 June 4, Robert De Roos, “San Francisco Chef”, in Life, page 56. From the entry on the side
  • Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening.2016 June 16, Nandita Ravi, “Fast and feast responsibly this Ramadan!”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2017. From the entry culinary
  • Then you could buy sandwiches with caviar, not all these strange kebabs.’ But Babulia (granny), as the locals call her, is not one to complain.1992 August 1, John Kampfner, “A Year in the Life of Gorky Park”, in Telegraph Magazine, London, →OCLC, page 38, column 3. From the entry babulia
  • Vegetable kebabs and mititei feature, too. ¶ Traditional Romanian sausages, mititei are made with ground meats – pork, beef and lamb – flavoured with salt, pepper and herbs.2018 September 26, Cónal Thomas, “Tudor Mancui Brings His Romanian Barbecue With Him”, in Dublin Inquirer. From the entry mititei
  • Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice.2013 May 20 "Early trouble" The Irish Times (Dublin) Sport p.2. From the entry morto
  • Locally made ham sausage, koubasa, farmers' sausage, garlic coil, bison smokies, venison bratwurst and beer sticks; Spanish chorizo, Lebanese lamb kebabs, French merguez and Balkan cévapčići.2010, Amy Jo Ehman, Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home for Dinner, page 182. From the entry beer stick
  • A shish-kebab polymer crystal usually consists of a central fibril (shish) and disk-shaped folded-chain lamellae (kebab) oriented perpendicularly to the shish as shown in Fig. 18.3a.2007, Lingyu Li, Bing Li, Steve L. Kodjie, and Christopher Y. Li, Polyolefin Composites, ed. Domasius Nwabunma and Thein Kyu, chapter 18…. From the entry shish kebab
  • I ate a kebab in a Cypriot cafe with the freezing rain spatting in the doorway and I was poured a soup-like cup of builder's tea.2005, Barbara Bailey, An eccentric marriage: Living with Jim, →ISBN, page 185. From the entry builder's tea
  • An old man sold me a kind of shish kebab every night for seven days with a weird sauerkrauty sauce which I can taste this moment.2000, Bruce Pascoe, Nightjar, Seaglass Books, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry sauerkrauty
  • I managed to purchase a square-cut early sixties coat in a fabric we used to call poodle cloth for the price of a kebab and chips on The Smoke.1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 218. From the entry poodle cloth
  • Men entered the room bearing skewers of tikas—kebabs or shashliki, we would call them—spitted chunks of lamb that had been roasted with onions and other seasoning.1958 May, Christopher Rand, “Journey Through the Khyber Pass”, in Ted Patrick, editor, Holiday, volume 23, number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry shashlik

Meaning of kebab

  1. noun A hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.
  2. noun A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  3. noun A dish made from shaped minced meat, usually grilled on a skewer but sometimes formed into a patty and fried or baked.

Full definition of kebab

Questions about kebab in a sentence

How do you use kebab in a sentence?
Kebab is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Let's go to the kebab after the club.”
What is a short sentence with kebab?
“Tastes meatilicious and is very good kebabbed.”
What does kebab mean?
Kebab means a hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.

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