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How to use tripe in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, interjection

Tripe means the lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. Example: “I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom.”

Examples of tripe by meaning

nounThe lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

  • I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  • Tripe: A popular dish commonly believed to be a sexual stimulant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 237

More sentences with tripe

  • He said it was because they were given always tripe to eat.2015, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, “Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of South African History”, in Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern…. From the entry izimbongi
  • For the more offally inspired, try the tripa (tripe) and sesos (brain).2012, Lonely Planet Food, The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it. From the entry offally
  • The Béarnais prepare theirs with the boiled cheeks, tripe and spleen of calf.2011 August 12, Anissa Helou, “An A to Z of offal”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sanguette
  • Saturdays and Sundays Cruz offers a pan con lechon (roast pork sandwich) and mondongo (tripe soup).2002 August 2, A. LaBan, “Neighborhood Tours”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry mondongo
  • It's a lot of tripe and onions, that's what it is.1996, Constance Laux, Touched by Magic, page 234. From the entry tripe and onions
  • She craves guatita, a dish of cow tripe in a sauce thickened by peanut butter that she serves over plantains.2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times. From the entry guatita
  • Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!”1996, Janice Bennett, Karen Ranney, Doreen Owens Malek, Angel Love, page 214. From the entry tripe and onions
  • For instance, a food ration can be polymorphed into a carrot, a tripe ration, or any other comestible.June 4ᵗʰ, 1989, “Pete Granger” (username), Hack Tutorial, Part 03/03, rec.games.hack. From the entry comestible
  • Tripe and heart, that’s all they give us.1920, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The House of the Dead. From the entry fill one's pockets
  • And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind. From the entry schlock
  • Nevertheless, a potluck with people you don't know well might not be the time to bring that tripe recipe you've always wanted to try.2016, Kristin Donnelly, “Rules of the Potluck”, in Modern Potluck: Beautiful Food to Share, New York, N.Y.: Clarkson Potter/Publishers…. From the entry potluck
  • Now Mei Fun bowls can have some things that children wouldn't like, such as pig ears and some innards, some duck feet, or some tripe.2011 August 1, Stephen K. Scott, Grunions with Onions: A Children's Food Fantasy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry mei fun
  • The fresh meat was sausaged into the tripes of pig and deer and ox, because the time for salting was not yet come.a. 1994, John James, edited by Caitlín Matthews and John Matthews, The Fourth Gwenevere, Jo Fletcher Books, Quercus Editions Ltd.…. From the entry sausage
  • If the rural poor ate birds then the urban poor ate pairings of tripe, slink (prematurely born calves), or broxy (diseased sheep).1983, Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered lives: public health in Victorian Britain, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry broxy
  • The gay one, Alan, takes them with his current lover to an African restaurant, new venture in the city, offering traditional mopani worm snacks, tripe and usu with beans.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 21. From the entry mopane
  • There are traditional dishes such as Mopani worms, mogodu or unbleached tripe; and umngqusho, which is braised beef shin with maize porridge, billed as former President Nelson Mandela's favourite dish.2009 August 13, Celean Jacobson, “Cultural heart of Jo'burg”, in Toronto Star. From the entry unbleached

Meaning of tripe

  1. noun The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
  2. noun The entrails; (by extension, humorous or derogatory) the belly.
  3. noun Something foolish or valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television).

Full definition of tripe

Questions about tripe in a sentence

How do you use tripe in a sentence?
Tripe is used as a noun and interjection. For example: “I see them pop off every day in the Mater and Richmond and cut up into tripes in the dissectingroom.”
What is a short sentence with tripe?
“Really, Miss Gordon, it's tripe and onions!””
What does tripe mean?
Tripe means the lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

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