How to Use trotter in a Sentence

trotter

noun
  • The bones in trotters and shanks provide gelatin, which thickens the stew.
    — Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The globe-trotters are loading up on jeans, hoodies and candles.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • The Shanghai trotter is a massive hunk of wobbly pork served over a bed of bok choy.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Last year's best 2-year-trotter, the colt is sidelined with a minor injury.
    — Tom Canavan, courant.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • There are also venison and pig trotter pies, each lanced with an enormous marrow bone.
    — Caitie Kelly Wei Tchou Julia Halperin Tom Delavan Lane Nieset Gage Daughdrill, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • This is zampone, a staple of the holiday food menu -- a pig trotter filled with pork meat.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • On the morning of the day prior to your khash feast, place the trotters in a large bowl and cover with water.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Brawn's meaty French small plates include boudin noir, bone marrow, and gelatinous trotters.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Drain water, return trotters to the pot, and cover with 2 inches of fresh water.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Lane of Stone, a 3-year-old male trotter, is the winningest horse on the card this year with eight victories in nine starts.
    — Bob Roberts, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • George Straw, a dedicated globe-trotter, doesn’t like the water.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 5 July 2017
  • The palette is priced at $29, which, to be frank, is like a globe trotter's understanding of what drugstore prices are.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Some globe-trotters collect decorative spoons or native art as keepsakes.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Veal sweetbreads are fried to a crisp and served in a broth meant to evoke the flavors of bun bo Hue, a classic spicy noodle soup made with pig’s blood and trotters.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
  • Try some crab stick; or Spam with kimchi gimbap; or pig’s trotters, which on the packaging gets a grinning thumbs-up from a guy in a red bow tie.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Any conductor that helms a company of Lyric Opera’s stature is going to be a globe-trotter — there’s no two ways about it.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Traditionally made with leftovers or lesser cuts of meats such as pigs’ trotters, the dish today has many variations.
    — Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • For now, the globe trotter is cozied up on a lounge chair in the sunlit basement of an empty Laurel Canyon Airbnb.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Here are the hotspots discerning globe-trotters will be clamoring to check into in 2020 and beyond.
    — Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a reason this cosmopolitan metropolis is on every globe-trotter’s bucket list.
    — Anne Roderique-Jones, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2017
  • And while these two fellows suffered from the same trotter's turmoil, their reactions were markedly dissimilar.
    — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Hamaya offers soba iterations with yushi tofu (tofu that hasn’t been pressed and formed), tebichi (pig’s trotters), or san-mai niku (three-layered pork).
    — Katherine Lagrave, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Serving as the base of the dish and topped with the pig and black pudding, these unctuous, creamy beans have bits of pig trotter floating in them, bringing even more richness to the party.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Give them a piece of Kentucky this holiday season with these local products that will make meaningful presents for your fellow globe trotters.
    — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Saving pitchers for the late season is great, however, taking out your workhorse to be replaced by a trotter only annoys the best player in all of baseball.
    — Los Angeles Times, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • The English standard savory pie will rotate flavors, with the first being a combination of chicken, pig’s trotter and leek.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
  • One animal chancing its trotter on the result is a piglet, which is betting its bacon that South Africa will secure a record-equaling third title.
    — Celine Ramseyer and Matias Grez, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Getting local audiences to buy into the triennial may be more important than luring the globe-trotters, some suggest.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2018
  • My father, child psychoanalyst Robert Kohrman, was an art collector and a voracious globe-trotter.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 29 Nov. 2017
  • This is also one of the better spots for bun bo Hue, a hearty, spicy bowl of beef noodle soup amped with cubes of jelly made from beef blood, plus meatballs, pig shanks (or sometimes the trotters) and various innards.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2017

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