How to Use entrails in a Sentence

entrails

plural noun
  • Take those measurements, perhaps swirl them with the entrails of a goat, and out pops a score.
    — David McCloskey, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Within a day or two, the masks would be covered in fish blood and entrails and rendered useless.
    — Paula Dobbyn, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • When preparing them for the table, the trick is to remove the entrails, then cut the fish into steaks about 2 inches thick.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Inspect the cavity for any remaining entrails, and remove anything that isn’t meat or bones.
    — Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The patient, relived his entrails weren’t falling out, coiled the worm onto a cardboard tube and went to the hospital.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Warm temperatures can cause trout to deteriorate and spoil fast, but removing the entrails will slow that process.
    — Ryan Wichelns, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • That spacious fish cleaning station has been popular with Cleveland area anglers, and should help to keep stinky fish entrails out of the dumpsters in the area.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland, 8 July 2021
  • Narvi’s entrails are available because cruel gods transformed his brother Vali into a wolf, who then devoured Narvi.
    — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • Studio accountants will soon gather, muttering, around the box-office returns, like ancient priests inspecting the entrails of a sheep.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The slurry of fish parts is then flushed down a sanitary sewer, eliminating the long-time problem of foul-smelling fish entrails in garbage cans, along the shoreline or discarded into the water.
    — cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Etruscan priests prophesied by looking at the entrails of animals, their narration was mediated through their energy.
    — Vogue, 12 July 2021
  • Within that small package are entrails that nearly defy the laws of physics, producing far more substantial sound than the Level’s compact dimensions suggest.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 Mar. 2021
  • There were suggestions that some had found their way into the entrails of the stadium, reaching as far as Old Trafford’s sanctum sanctorum, the home team’s changing room.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2021
  • In 2012 Gezari led a team that observed, with unprecedented detail, a tidal disruption event—a tame name for a black hole ripping apart the entrails of a star that got too close.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Protesters left deer entrails on the mayor’s car and hired detectives to trail White Buffalo’s sharpshooters, who began wearing bulletproof vests.
    — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The Italianate structure is adjacent to the section of Main Street where local high school juniors and seniors gather each October to smash pumpkins and sled down the slick entrails of the gourds.
    — cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • Dogpatch neighborhood was reportedly named for the packs of strays that hunted for scraps from a now extinct row of nearby slaughterhouses, where industrial meat operations could discard entrails into marshes and mudflats.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2021

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