How to Use squab in a Sentence

squab

noun
  • Hopefully the cats will stay away and the young squabs will survive.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
  • Dove or pigeon is more commonly called squab in the culinary world.
    — ExpressNews.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Other poultry dishes may include squab cooked in a wood-fire oven or on a grill.
    — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 July 2025
  • And the servers will encourage you to eat with your hands, at least for the aforementioned squab.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The squab carcasses are used to create the soup in an earlier course.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Dover sole is followed by a frog’s leg is trailed by squab garnished with jewellike raspberries.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • The main course on my last visit earlier this month was squab, cooked on a smoker set out back of the restaurant.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And like any theatrical production, one of its cast members, the squab, appears in two acts.
    — Fortune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The boldness of that squab represented tasting-menu cuisine at its best.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The standout item on the menu was the risotto which had an unrivaled rich flavor served alongside tender squab.
    — Rana Good, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Entrees include multiple game dishes like guinea fowl, venison and squab.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Probably one of the most brilliant pairings was the fifth course with the squab which was dry aged, smoked, and prepared with a plum sauce and sticky rice.
    — Liz Thach, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • In between, waiters brought out dishes including salmon, duckling and squab.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The squabs are fed an exclusive diet of crop milk for the first week or two of their life, and then gradually the parents mix in adult food.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The chefs are tasked with creating a dish featuring either quail, duck, squab, turkey, or chukar (a type of partridge).
    — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Then on to the kitchen where Malabar made theater of the preparation of the sack of headless squabs Ben had brought.
    — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Tables overflow with plates of XO escargot, mapo spaghetti and crispy whole squab.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2025
  • What sounds like a gimmick turns out to be luscious, and a first course of either chawanmushi or roast squab underscores a kitchen steeped in the classics.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • And the Californian squab grilled over pine is served alongside hen-of-the-woods mushroom and atop a black-truffle jus.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 16 June 2026
  • The fact that the lamb chops were flown in from Australia and the squab from California is proudly advertised.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
  • The cookbook included meats from chicken and turkey to venison, rabbit and squab, while some families served possum, tongue or wild duck.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The menu called for the indomitable credit men to eat cream of new asparagus, Philadelphia squab, and assorted cakes.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Others, including squab glazed with Guinness and cocoa, channel a grand French restaurant.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
  • Calling to me in winter are smoked squab breast with roasted chanterelles and venison paired with red cabbage and roasted squash, dishes that highlight the kitchen’s classic saucing.
    — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Though pigeon or squab has been the traditional poultry of choice, easier modern versions substitute chicken in the pie.
    — Casey Barber, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In the entree round, the judges are eager to find out if the chefs can wing it with squab, a young domestic pigeon, and the dessert round puzzle includes a wild pizza pie and purple tuber yam.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The main difference is that Anderson probably devours a more refined preparation of squab.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
  • After all, if everyone had their own squab accessory, his would become as unremarkable as an actual pigeon.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Then on Valentine’s Day, diners can enjoy a seven-course menu with oyster French onion soup, caviar cannoli, pad Thai terrine, squab, rack of lamb and crème brûlée.
    — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Pinckney was at the dinner that night, trying to acknowledge and refute history over watermelon brandy, chowchow, shrimp pie, chapon chasseur, and truffled squab served with silver ewers of walnut ketchup.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017

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