How to Use gristle in a Sentence

gristle

noun
Definition of gristlenext
  • You'll get chewed up and spit out like a hunk of gristle.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • My wife got the brisket and turkey which were both smoky but the brisket had a titch too much gristle.
    — cleveland, 23 Dec. 2021
  • While the pork knuckle is still warm, separate the meat from the bone; discard the bone with the fat, and the gristle.
    — Kate Krader, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The meat was tender and boldly beefy, but there was some gristle and fat to work around.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Remove the pork from the pot and use two forks to shred it, discarding any gristle.
    — Jill Gibson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Place the food thermometer in the thickest part of the food, making sure not to touch bone, fat, or gristle.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2020
  • At the end of the meal, our colleague finished his entire steak except the gristle.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • There’s gristle to Druig’s (Barry Keoghan) slim portion of the story.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • When cool enough to handle, remove the meat from both and shred into bite-size pieces; discard the bones, fat, and gristle.
    — Christopher Kimball, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • When cool enough to handle, strip them of their meat and toss the skin, gristle, and bones, reserving both the meat and the concentrated broth.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Marinate beef: Trim off any gristle from the beef, then cut into 3/4-inch (2-cm) cubes.
    — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • It’s thick-cut, with a little fat and a little gristle, and super tender, juicy white meat.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2018
  • Insert it into the right spot: Make sure to insert the probe into meat, not hitting bone or gristle.
    — Mercedes Cardona, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2020
  • As for that gristle: Raise your napkin to your mouth, spit it inside and discreetly fold the napkin over it in your lap.
    — Carolyne Zinko, SFChronicle.com, 3 July 2018
  • The high heat delivered a crispy gristle on the steak that sealed in the seasoning like a blanket and allowed the beef flavor to stand out more than the fuel.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Together the ensemble - representing the boundless and the finite, the cosmic and the gristle of human life- speaks to life and death.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Rendered through these three artists, the sweat and gristle of black genius—which is to say, the bone-tough work of black genius—was nearly impossible to escape, online and off.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Mangled bunnies figure prominently in a show that somehow managed to keep it light while not being afraid to talk about gristle and blood.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2022
  • One snip of the scissors and the fat fell away, leaving an incredibly tender steak blessedly free of the greasy gristle and chewy char found on the other steaks my parents tried to force on me.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • This connective tissue changes during cooking and adds texture – and gristle – to meat.
    — Natalie R. Rubio, The Conversation, 5 July 2019
  • Tear pork into shaggy pieces, discarding any sections of fat or gristle, and return meat to pot with cooking liquid.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Chewing on concepts, working the gristle over and over in my maw, macerating the words into submission.
    — Alyssa Brandt, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • These weren’t just knobby gristles from the cartilage end of the spare rib; these were cut in neat cross-sections with golden-blonde pork wrapping around the telltale three white dots of cartilage, balanced with a sharp rim of smoked bark.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • In fact, one of the choicest bites of the entire meal was an unladylike gnaw of the generous gristle on a bone followed by a spoonful of marrow-thickened soup, bobbing with cubes of cleansing daikon.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Genre fans might be disappointed by the lack of gristle that comes with a PG-13 rating, save for one particularly nasty scene involving an ear.
    — Jake Smith, Glamour, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Properly ground meat should have a consistent texture with no large pieces of gristle or connective tissue.
    — Brad Fenson, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Remove as much fat, gristle, fascia—anything but muscle—since fat and other non-muscle parts can oxidize quicker and spoil meat.
    — Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 3 Dec. 2020
  • There was little danger of anyone’s making that mistake on two occasions when the lobster was intransigently chewy: gristle of the sea.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2016
  • The 6-foot-2 Kansan with a nasty sinking fastball has blown out his right medial collateral ligament — a critical piece of elbow gristle — not once but twice.
    — Alex Lash, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2002
  • There’s mounting evidence that the tax bill – which screws over the poor and delivers legislative filet mignon to the rich, with the middle class left to gnaw on the gristle – would be the most unpopular major new law in several generations.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 17 Dec. 2017

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