How to Use tempura in a Sentence

tempura

noun
  • Add tempura shrimp, should the mood strike.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • There was a full, meaty lobster tail with a light, crisp tempura touch.
    — Linh Ta, Axios, 16 July 2024
  • The meal kit comes with udon, shrimp, tempura, a runny egg and more.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • If your tempura doesn’t come with sauce, use soy sauce instead.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Sushi makes the menu as well as different kinds of dumplings and tempura.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
  • There are also tempura lobster tails and duck breast with parsnip puree.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2021
  • On the hot side, the chef said first-time diners shouldn't skip the black cod with miso and rock shrimp tempura.
    — Lauren Saria, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
  • In a large bowl, stir together tempura flour and seltzer.
    — C.w. Cameron, AJC.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The salad — dressed in fresh citrus and olive oil — and the tempura were ready in about half an hour.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the area’s hottest restaurants — as well as a new one dishing out shrimp tempura tacos — are here.
    — New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Or dip in a tempura-style batter and fry until golden and crisp.
    — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2022
  • Crispy tempura calf’s brain — crispy, creamy, with a sharp hit of citrus — is as snacky as potato chips.
    — Patricia Escárcega, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • The nuggets are breaded with a tempura coating made of both cayenne and chili peppers.
    — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Sticks of zucchini are wrapped in a thin, tempura-style batter and fried to just crisp.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the Japanese are said to serve them raw, boiled or fried in tempura.
    — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
  • Deb said the rice flour makes the coating more tempura like, lighter than regular flour.
    — Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Oven cleaner and butane stored above bags of flour and tempura batter.
    — Ryan Santistevan, azcentral, 16 May 2018
  • Start off with tempura veggies, try the sweet and sour chicken, and finish off with a dessert.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 13 May 2019
  • Instead of french fries, there are beech mushrooms dipped in tempura and seasoned with warm spices.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • Choose your noodles, broth and then add your own tempura, rice balls and other toppings.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Start off with tempura veggies, try the sweet and sour chicken, and finish off with one of their four desserts.
    — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 13 May 2019
  • At the 10-seat counter, beef dishes will range from sashimi to shabu-shabu and tempura.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • That means cartoon-y drawings of him all over the restaurant and the most special tempura bowl.
    — Elyse Inamine, Bon Appétit, 5 Feb. 2020
  • For the record, the kids’ favorite was the tempura asparagus.
    — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
  • Lobster tempura, bouillabaisse and milk and honey ice cream are back on the menu.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Toshio returns with a bit of tempura, hoping the crispy sweet potatoes and shrimp will break the standoff.
    — Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Guests grab a tray, choose an udon bowl and shift along the assembly line, which ends with trays of fresh tempura beneath heat laps.
    — Daily Pilot, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Bang Bang Shrimp is closer to tempura-style than true popcorn shrimp.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026
  • As for food, the langoustine tempura, prime cuts of beef, and award-winning cocktails are not to be missed.
    — Katie Lockhart, House Beautiful, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Tiny cups of vegetable broth and miso soup flocked around plates of delicate tempura squash, lotus root and shiso leaves.
    — Anna Hezel, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

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