How to Use gefilte fish in a Sentence

gefilte fish

noun
  • There are also some things like our gefilte fish, which is homemade and not out of a jar.
    — Max Abrams, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • That Hitler choked to death on a bone while ravenously eating gefilte fish.
    — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • It's typically served with gefilte fish or beef brisket, or eaten on matzo.
    — Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
  • And like meatloaf, gefilte fish picked up flavors and versions as Jews wandered the world.
    — Kimberly Winston and Yonat Shimron, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Sandler said, noting items such as Russian dumplings (pelmeni) and gefilte fish.
    — Sarah Meehan, baltimoresun.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The only way to eat gefilte fish is to clobber it with horseradish, like a lot of horseradish.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2021
  • And Passover would not be the same without a tear-inducing heap of horseradish on your gefilte fish.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Recipients also got items for a meal, including a kosher chicken and gefilte fish.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2022
  • And some grocery stores have not been able to fully restock staples — not to mention chicken, gefilte fish, liver, brisket and kugel.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But Fallon’s experience with gefilte fish, sad to say, wasn’t quite that successful.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Her chicken soup was the color of sunlight, her gefilte fish was as delicate as a French quenelle, her latkes were evenly browned.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Assuming that all Jews love gefilte fish, play klezmer music, and suffer overbearing mothers?
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The menu also features tempting ways to round out the dinner table with challah, chicken liver spread, gefilte fish, honey cake and more.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Traditional dishes include matzo ball soup, gefilte fish, beef brisket, chicken and potatoes.
    — Sarah Gray, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The pair discussed modern art, Topo’s love for spaghetti and lasagna (as well as gefilte fish and chow mein), and the intricacies of show business.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Think small-bite items like beef-tongue sliders, pastrami deviled eggs and gefilte croquettes—the latter a play on the Jewish staple of gefilte fish.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2017
  • There was Purell at the sukkah’s entrance, and taco salad and gefilte fish in takeout containers; the attendees, who wore masks and sat far apart, drank rosé out of cans.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Teyf focused on traditional foods like challah rolls, gefilte fish and kugel but tried to make the foods a little healthier, using less salt on account of the survivors’ ages.
    — Shira Hanau, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Trends from last year indicate orders for lamb, matzo ball soup, gefilte fish and brisket will increase significantly, Instacart said.
    — Noor Adatia, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Dinner begins with the hardboiled egg dipped in saltwater and is usually followed by traditional foods like matzo ball soup, brisket, chicken or gefilte fish.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Seder meal that follows is culinarily a bit like Thanksgiving in that there are certain dishes, like matzo ball soup and gefilte fish, that are nonnegotiable.
    — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Traditional Passover dishes include beef brisket and gefilte fish, as well as matzah or matzo, an unleavened flatbread that's specially made for Passover.
    — Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Tapeworm infection is most likely to occur in the Jewish population during Passover when gefilte fish is much in demand (9).
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2011
  • During the event, families packaged Passover foods such as matzah, grape juice, gefilte fish, and personal hygiene/toiletry items such as toilet paper, soap, rubbing alcohol and more.
    — Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Leah ate Wednesday’s Passover dinner’s leftover matzo ball soup and gefilte fish for lunch on Easter Sunday, following their egg hunt and jelly bean snack.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The products — uncooked produce and meats, sugar and flour, challahs and jars of gefilte fish — arrive at the group’s warehouse on New Utrecht Avenue on Wednesdays.
    — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2017
  • For instance, the meal offers an abundance of food, including matzo ball soup and gefilte fish, two staples of Eastern European Jewish cuisine.
    — James Deutsch, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Floodwater, a hip bar in Marin County, is prepping a five-course meal ($70 per person) starring gefilte fish made with local rock cod, roasted brisket with potato kugel and fun sweets like white chocolate matcha macarons.
    — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2021
  • An all-day restaurant, Boubalé, serves modern takes on Jewish favorites like gefilte fish, challah and kreplach, and there are two bars, one of them a speakeasy-style lounge with marbleized wallpaper and Murano glass ceiling lights.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This Jewish deli does far more than pastrami, with a full deli counter and dine-in menu—there are frankfurters with saurkraut and other pickled things, knishes and latkes, matzo ball soup, and even gefilte fish—but the sky-high sandwiches are the reason to take the train alllll the way uptown.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026

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