How to Use quail in a Sentence

quail

noun
  • We had quail for dinner.
  • Surely there were no quail around here.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Would our kind hosts have either doves or quail?
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Kobe-beef tartare comes with crème fraîche, a quail egg, and foie gras.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Bobwhite quail and whitetail deer can be found on the land.
    — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Hunting is no longer about killing a limit of squirrels or quail.
    — Durrell Smith, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2020
  • My quail shot had lodged between the outer hide and the thin inner skin.
    — Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Top with some horseradish cream and a quail egg yolk, if using.
    — Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Tellman said a quail hunter in the area spotted her body a few weeks later.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
  • The kids grew up on a diet of rabbit, fish, quail and the ever-present acorn.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The bag contained festive items like clams, oysters, crab meat, quail, and smoked salmon.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Be sure to get the quail—it’s inspired by juicy Cantonese roast duck, crispy skin and all.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Baxter noticed there was no way to track the quail at Lake Lewisville.
    — Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
  • But a public-land quail hunter is nothing if not an optimist.
    — Durrell Smith, Outdoor Life, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Cordúa treats Flay to a soft-shell crawfish taco and a quail Wellington.
    — Therese Odell, Chron, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The Mearns quails have separate lodgings from the rest of the farm's birds.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Both of those conditions are in play this year over substantial parts of quail range.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • First course is Caesar with beef tartare, quail egg, crostini and aioli.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The famous writer could shoot 18 doves a day, 15 ducks or a dozen quail.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Locals call it one of the last truly wild places in Texas, where quail, elk and desert bighorn sheep roam.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Karly's Kitchen’s langostino and quail egg banh khot, shown here with a vial of fish sauce.
    — Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 24 June 2026
  • The difference is that nature put the quail there, while human beings put the cats there.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Here, in my opinion, are the best shotshell loads for winter ducks, geese, pheasants, grouse, and quail.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Production wasn’t as good for western Oregon quail, which took a hit from a wet spring.
    — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 23 Oct. 2025

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