How to Use quail in a Sentence

quail

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  • We had quail for dinner.
  • On the menu: quail stuffed with wild rice and white grapes.
    — Marvin Joseph, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Kobe-beef tartare comes with crème fraîche, a quail egg, and foie gras.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The Mearns quails have separate lodgings from the rest of the farm's birds.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And that rich quail flavor with smoky bacon and the heat from the jalapeno just can’t be beat.
    — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The show, which rotates from city to city in the pheasant and quail range, is a bird hunter’s dream world.
    — Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The famous writer could shoot 18 doves a day, 15 ducks or a dozen quail.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Baxter noticed there was no way to track the quail at Lake Lewisville.
    — Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
  • Cordúa treats Flay to a soft-shell crawfish taco and a quail Wellington.
    — Therese Odell, Chron, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The quail of the little milpas, which is what the Mexicans call their farm fields, are a case in point.
    — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
  • As Dunklin put it, the demise of the quail in this part of the state wasn't due to hunting pressure but a loss of habitat.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Put down the ketchup and mustard in favor of more fun toppings, such as lemon aioli and quail eggs.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Instead the researchers used a quail muscle cell line to knock out FBP2.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Over the decades, the aviary has been home to birds from all over the world as well as housing more run-of-the-mill fowl like pigeons, turkeys and quail.
    — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Dickel’s Smokehouse has jalapeño-cheese sausage and quail.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The bride wore a leather glove with a piece of quail meat attached to entice Marty the falcon to swoop down and land on her arm.
    — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Duck in for a Diet Coke, and walk out with a cowhide flask, pickled quail eggs, and beaver-faced fuzzy slippers.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • The thalamus is about the size and shape of a quail egg and sits deep in the brain, relaying info all around the cortex.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
  • Tom Mix and Harry Houdini once lived there among the quail and scrub pine and coyotes.
    — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Hunting is no longer about killing a limit of squirrels or quail.
    — Durrell Smith, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The difference is that nature put the quail there, while human beings put the cats there.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • His third project was quail preservation at Lake Lewisville.
    — Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
  • Top with some horseradish cream and a quail egg yolk, if using.
    — Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Sometimes those sounds are the yelps and barks of coyotes, the muttering of quail, or the soft cooing of mourning doves at the first hint of the new day.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Gore wrote that the property once housed bees, quail, chickens and sheep after it was built in 1983.
    — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Here, in my opinion, are the best shotshell loads for winter ducks, geese, pheasants, grouse, and quail.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Jan. 2021
  • There was no sound except the grind of tires on gravel, the gush of a May breeze and the occasional call of sentinel quail.
    — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 30 May 2022
  • The lines echoed the Exodus story, how the Lord saved the Israelites in the desert by sending them quail and manna from heaven.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • First course is Caesar with beef tartare, quail egg, crostini and aioli.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Or swap the large bird for smaller options, such as a roast chicken, Cornish hens, duck or quail.
    — Allyson Chiu, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2020

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