How to use tuna in a sentence

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• Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?From the entry wheat
• Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?From the entry brine
• Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.From the entry friendly
• The Tuesday lunch special is our tuna melt on rye.From the entry special
• Now imagine if copi becomes the new tuna or tilapia or shrimp.2022 June 22, Patti Wetli, “Introducing Copi, the Fish Formerly Known as Asian Carp”, in WTTW. From the entry copi
• The rest of the year he catches bluefin tuna and dives for sea urchins.2015 August 18, Christoph Gelfand, “'Diving for Scallops'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry tender
• Simply scoop enough to fit a small portion of tuna or chopped egg.2014 September 18, Kristin Kirkpatrick, “6 Fabulous Ways to Eat an Avocado: Turn that fruit into a frozen treat, soup or salsamole.”, in…. From the entry salsamole
• But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32. From the entry ant
• There simply wasn't any fresh tuna to be had in American markets a generation or so ago.2013 December, Susanna Hoffman, Victoria Wise, “Shimmering Fare from American Waters”, in Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry fishify
• Then get stuck into one of the char-grilled steaks, the sesame-encrusted tuna, or slow-cooked lamb shank.2011, Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Frommer's South Africa, unnumbered page. From the entry get stuck into
• It's brilliant for a brunchy breakfast, and teams well with grilled salmon, tuna, or mackerel for dinner.2005, Jill Dupleix, Good Cooking: The New Basics, page 32. From the entry team
• Crab cake sandwiches, tuna melts, chicken clubs, salmon cakes, and prime-rib sandwiches are usually on the menu.2004, Joanne M. Anderson, Small-town Restaurants in Virginia, page 123. From the entry club
• There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish.2004, Alan Murphy, Scotland. From the entry scrummy
• I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid.2002, Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals. From the entry melt
• Prickly pears, known as tunas in Spanish, produce deliciously juicy fruits.2002, Scott Cunningham, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen, page 22. From the entry despine
• The mackerel is a scombroid fish, like the tuna, and is essentially thunniform.1999, Christopher McGowan, A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics. From the entry thunniform
• The experiment in the first period targeted skipjack tuna and the second, yellowfin tuna.1996, Gary T. Sakagawa, “Western Pacific Yellowfin Tuna Research Group Findings on Tuna Fisheries Interactions”, in Richard S. Shomura…. From the entry yellowfin tuna
• It contained two kinds of what our waitress called puffy tuna.1995 November 10, Ruth Reichl, “Restaurants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry sayori
• The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.1986, Robin Mahon, Report and proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Shared Fishery Resources of the Lesser Antilles Region, Food and…. From the entry bigeye
• You mustn't let the tuna rest, if you aim to ever gaff him alongside.1901 February, Maximilian Foster, “The Greatest Game Fishing”, in Munsey's Magazine, volume 24, number 5, page 662. From the entry chug away
• (There is, for example, an enormous genre of fan-made visual art depicting Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic tuna: collectively, Tunalock.2015, Zach Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, page 255. From the entry Tunalock
• And Oceana's study revealed that 94 per cent of “white tuna” was not tuna at all, but escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum).2013 February 20, Helen Thomson, “News Focus: Meat Scandal: What's On Your Plate?”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 7. From the entry escolar
• It was always canned and was presented only for eating mixed cold in tuna salad or hot in tuna casserole.2013 December, Susanna Hoffman, Victoria Wise, “Shimmering Fare from American Waters”, in Bold: A Cookbook of Big Flavors, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry fishify
• An intermediate line has its place when chasing breezing tuna that are moving at mach speed on the surface.2011, Mike Rieser, Fly Fishing the Baja and Beyond, page 143. From the entry breeze
• Both types of fish are available in cans, but unlike tuna, salmon is loaded with fat — healthy omega-3 fatty acids.2010, Anthony Marcelus, “Fix Your Fare”, in Reps!, 17:73. From the entry omega-3 fatty acid
• Reintroduce protein; add a small serve of salmon, tuna or sardines every second day (tinned variety or fresh).2008, Michael E. Cichorski, Maximum Asthma Control: The Revolutionary 3-Step Anti Asthma Program, page 100. From the entry serve
• The yellowfin tuna at a seaside restaurant is nicely undercooked.2008, Robert D. Temple, Edge Effects: The Border-name Places, page 214. From the entry undercooked
• So—sorry, Charlie.” She gives a simpery smile, as if no one’s ever used the tuna line on me before.2007, Hank Phillippi Ryan, chapter 3, in Prime Time (Charlotte McNally), New York, N.Y: Tom Doherty Associates, published February 2016…. From the entry simpery
• So, this year's crudo could be next year's tuna carpaccio.2004 November 7, Christine Muhlke, “The Remix; Expiration Date”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry crudo
• For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.2002, Karen Adler, Judith M. Fertig, Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked: […], Boston, MA: The Harvard Common Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 6. From the entry griller
• Gypsy Rose passed me a tuna on rye.2000, Noreen Wald, Death Never Takes a Holiday. From the entry Lord love a duck
• "I'm famished, anyone want a tuna on rye?"1999 May 8, Bizarra, “Diva That Wouldn't Die”, in alt.tv.remember-wenn (Usenet). From the entry LOLer
• Cans of jalapeno-flavored tuna appeared on store shelves along with low-fat tuna mix-ins to make mayonnaiseless tuna salad.1996, Joseph R. Dominick, “The Advertising Campaign”, in The Dynamics of Mass Communication (McGraw-Hill Series in Mass Communication)…. From the entry mix-in
• Tunas and other pelagic fishes, especially mahimahi and ono (wahoo), are known to congregate under drifting objects, such as logs.1990, Hawaiian Archipelago and Johnston Island Exclusive Economic Zone, Proposed Marine Mineral Lease Sale: Environmental Impact…. From the entry ono
• Alongside of it comes the pink colonche or cider of the tuna; this is an exceptionally good drink.1987, Simon J. Bronner, Folklife Studies from the Gilded Age, page 200. From the entry pomegranateade
• It was found that tuna meat was most strongly contaminated.1977, J. Wurziger, G. Dickhaut, translated by the Translation Bureau, Harmful substances in fatty fish preparations (Fisheries and Marine…. From the entry codliver
• With the coming of the bluefin tuna fishing season, a Liuqiu Township-based fishing boat caught the county's first tuna fish of this year, CNA reported.2022 April 10, George Liao, “'First tuna fish’ caught in Pingtung this year sells for over NT$2 million in southern Taiwan auction”, in…. From the entry Liuqiu
• I'll have the tuna tartare with quail egg, the duck with pear mostarda, and a glass of prosecco.” “I'll put that in right away.”2016 April 11, Ali Waller, “The Unincludeds” (3:58 from the start), in American Dad!, season 13, episode 11, spoken by Roger (Seth…. From the entry mostarda
• Sharks are a large component of the "bycatch" associated with baited hook fisheries that target nonshark species, such as tunas and billfishes.2014, Gene Helfman, George Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, page 180. From the entry nonshark

Meaning of tuna

1. noun Any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.
2. noun The edible flesh of the tuna.
3. noun The prickly pear, a type of cactus native to Mexico in the genus Opuntia.

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How do you use tuna in a sentence?

Tuna is used as a noun. For example: “Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?”

What is a short sentence with tuna?

“Our sandwiches are made with dolphin-friendly tuna.”

What does tuna mean?

Tuna means any of several species of fish of the genus Thunnus in the family Scombridae.