How to Use tallow in a Sentence

tallow

noun
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  • The eatery serves them up full of the flavor of beef tallow, right down to the meaty flecks stuck to the spuds.
    — Jay Jones, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2019
  • Mège-Mouriès found a way to make a spread from beef tallow.
    — Katie Landeck, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Don’t miss the bone marrow with bacon jam or the fries cooked in beef tallow.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Comes with potato chunks fried in beef tallow and tossed in parsley.
    — Michael Russell | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • There’s also caviar with toast and toppings ($100), desserts such as a cream puff made with wagyu tallow ($6) and lots of wine.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The three most common types of candle wax are paraffin, soy and tallow.
    — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Abbate said his research has shown that bees do go crazy for tallow trees.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 8 May 2022
  • The result on the land, otherwise, would be nuisance tallow trees.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
  • When the hide-and-tallow trade began to decline in 1837, Faucon embarked on a new career in the China trade.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • Once a year, the ranchos rounded them up, slaughtered them, and sold the tallow and hides to the Yankee trading ships hovering off the coast.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2021
  • The types of trees that are showing damage from the storm include lacebark elm, Texas ash, Chinese tallow, and red oak.
    — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 6 July 2021
  • In early interviews, Beuys claimed to have survived a plane crash thanks to the help of nomadic Tatars, who found him in the snow, wrapped him in wool and slathered him in tallow.
    — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Back in the days of newsstands, readers would grab it off the rack and then retire to their caves to read, by the light of burning tallow, the preview of the car that interested them.
    — Eddie Alterman, Car and Driver, 20 July 2017
  • But the trees irking Spedika on that day in October were not old ironwoods or tallow nuts.
    — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • In addition to wool, Beuys used lard, tallow, butter and other animal fats in many of his works.
    — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Pig fat residue on nearby pottery could support the idea that builders greased sledges with lard or tallow to transport the stones, a new analysis suggests.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
  • Cinnamon sticks, tallow berry and acorns, which are part of the Vanderbilt family crest, are used throughout the Biltmore House.
    — Virginia Brown, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Last winter’s cold almost killed my Chinese tallow tree.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Chinese tallow freezes back every hard winter and has lots of insect and disease problems.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Kept closed to the public, the center was visited only by the invasive Chinese tallow trees that sprung up from the ruins of dead cypress, maple and willow.
    — Beau Evans, NOLA.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • But read the label: this study from the University of Vermont, says tallow, which is derived from animal fatty acids, is what keeps deer away.
    — Larell Scardelli, Good Housekeeping, 20 Mar. 2017
  • To make wild game stock: submerge bones and a handful of carrots, onions, and celery, in water and simmer until the liquid has reduced by half, then strain, chill, and skim any fat or tallow from the surface.
    — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2021
  • For a recap of the freeze damage, Texas lost large numbers of pittosporum, loropetalum, ligustrum, loquat, Chinese tallow and Arizona ash.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 21 June 2021
  • People with less compelling stories are sending me photos of their Chinese tallow trees sending out new growth.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2021
  • When complete, the Paramount operation will process more than tallow.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The tallow is unloaded into a giant storage tank that once held fossil fuels.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The first phase includes the removal of nonnative trees such as the Chinese tallow from 14 acres of the park, with completion scheduled for August, according to Martin’s office.
    — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
  • For anyone interested in saving a tallow, the basal sprouts might actually have been a better way.
    — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The transition to polymer has sparked controversy after the central bank confirmed that a small amount of tallow, or animal fat, was used in the production process.
    — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And any journalist or reader who cares about fairness, facts, and consistency should be concerned about this slippery slope greased with the tallow of good intentions.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 25 Jan. 2018

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