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How to use loin in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Loin means the part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips. Example: “I cooked a loin for dinner tonight.”

Examples of loin by meaning

nounAny of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal.

  • beef loin; goat loin; lamb loin; pork loin; also chicken loin and turkey loin (but these are almost always referred to as tenderloins)
  • I cooked a loin for dinner tonight.

More sentences with loin

  • Prepare the loin as for French chops and arrange like a crown, rolling the loin backward.2019, Maria Willett Howard, Lowney's Cook Book. From the entry French chop
  • Twice he had tried to assuage his aching loins with the well endowed bedwench, finding little satisfaction.2012, Sharon Margolis, Swan Maiden, page 138. From the entry bedwench
  • I sometimes think men think of little else but the ungirding of their loins.2006, Cat Sparks, Agog! Ripping Reads. From the entry lewdster
  • King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies.2004, "Editorial," nepalnews.com (Nepal), vol. 24, no. 6 (Aug 3-19). From the entry gird up one's loins
  • Then Susan said briskly, "Well, we must just gird up our loins and pitch in."1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 9, in Rilla of Ingleside. From the entry gird up one's loins
  • Thrilly jolts of ecstasy electrified his junkie loins.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
  • Girding one's loins too tightly can lead to loss of circulation and, in extreme cases, loss of a loin.1979, Donald Kaul, The End of the World as We Know it ... and Other Entertainments, page 91. From the entry overgird
  • Bacheta took from his moocha a thick wooden peg that was a pin holding the moocha round his loins.1908, Douglas Blackburn, Leaven: A Black and White Story. From the entry moocha
  • You’re a danger now, he thought, as the woman scent of her filled his nostrils and made his loins swell with wanting.1993, Judith E. French, chapter 6, in Fortune's Mistress, Avon Books, page 101. From the entry woman scent
  • And behind the mare, or beside her, or else cavorting ahead, came a slim black colt, the fruit of her loins, without bridle or rope.c. 1950, Kay Boyle, “Adam's Death”, in Fifty Stories, 1992 edition, →ISBN, page 541. From the entry fruit of one's loins
  • O, the thunder of those loins!1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry mesial
  • His legs and thighs were similarly covered in plate, his loins by a mail apron over which was a short skirt of horizontal, overlapping plate 'tonlets'.2014, Desmond Seward, Richard III: England's Black Legend, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry tonlet
  • Deliciously defying categorization are caramelized pieces of miso-glazed pork loin ($16) with cute yellow cakes of starchy-sweet Japanese satsuma-imo (sweet potato) and cubes of cooked apple.2013 February 2, Amy Pataki, “JaBistro lures us in”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L8, column 5. From the entry satsuma-imo
  • Also passing muster were the loin of lamb in a zinfandel sauce and a variation on chicken marsala served with an avocado, tomato and cheese topping.1990 July, Pete Johnson, “A Taste of France in Huntington Beach”, in Orange Coast Magazine. From the entry pass muster
  • Here I describe three of the most widely appreciated ones: the dried ham, whose fat is choice tocino, the sausage called chorizo and the preserved loin and ribs of pork.1997, Jessica Kuper, The Anthropologists' Cookbook, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry matanza

Meaning of loin

  1. noun The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips.
  2. noun Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal.

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Questions about loin in a sentence

How do you use loin in a sentence?
Loin is used as a noun. For example: “I cooked a loin for dinner tonight.”
What is a short sentence with loin?
“O, the thunder of those loins!”
What does loin mean?
Loin means the part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips.

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