How to Use debone in a Sentence
debone
verb- Have the butcher debone the lamb for you.
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At the seafood counter, fishmongers will cut and debone any piece of fish.
—Paige Fowler, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2017
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In any case, your fish, whole or deboned, is grilled for eight minutes and served hot-pot style.
—Tan Vinh, The Seattle Times, 11 July 2017
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Jacques Pépin taught me how to debone a chicken and how to roast chicken.
—Alicia Kennedy, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
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If the kids don’t debone the frogs, the skeleton and body can be stuffed with new organs, sewn up and re-used.
—BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2020
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However, the students were able to learn how to debone, trim and process the meat in a clean and safe way.
—Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2019
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Or, they are immediately deboned and thrown in the grind pile.
—Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 21 Apr. 2020
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The tip is thin enough for fine work, while the thicker belly helps with skinning and deboning.
—Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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The safest way to age venison is to debone the deer and place the meat inside of a heavy contractor's bag.
—Jamie Carlson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2019
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That glove gives you the ability to hang onto that quarter while deboning.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
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For this, Stringer debones an entire chicken without taking it apart.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2019
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The blade is made from highly-durable, extra-sharp steel, making skinning and deboning a breeze.
—Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Some sardines are deboned and skinned before packaging; others are not.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2024
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The time-consuming and tricky handwork alone involved in deboning the wings is well worth $7 for two.
—Craig Laban, Philly.com, 8 May 2018
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The chef serves her signature fish nearly whole with crackling skin and flaky flesh, but head off and skillfully deboned.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
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Many processors offer bone-in cuts, but most do-it-yourselfers totally debone their meat.
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 29 Aug. 2019
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The knife if thicker than other knives and won’t bend, even when deboning or cutting salmon, tuna and other tougher fish.
—Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Duck is presented two ways, legs deboned and braised and breasts dry-aged and crisped, and paired with a black garlic sauce, mushroom jus and scallion oil.
—Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
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The perfectly roasted duck, over rice or noodles, is expertly deboned with luscious meat and soft chewy skin and fat in every bite.
—Andy Wang, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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By April, waves of workers who debone chickens or carve up pork elbow-to-elbow with their co-workers were falling ill from the virus.
—Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2020
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Tyson Foods has spent $500 million to develop a robot that can debone and cut up chickens at high speed.
—Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 10 July 2020
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At this stage, the anchovies can be packaged with the salt they were cured in, or they can be rinsed, deboned, filleted, packed into tins or jars, and covered in oil.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
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Our server placed before me a fluffy waffle about the size of a manhole cover that held a glorious pile of chicken that had been deboned and lovingly fried.
—Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
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The slower that meat moves through a slaughterhouse, the fewer people are needed to cut and debone it, which would allow for more space between employees.
—Michael Corkery, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
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One rotisserie chicken, if deboned correctly, should render 3 1/2 to 4 cups of meat.
—ABC News, 9 July 2026
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And for the first time robots also are deboning and filleting cod on Norwegian processing lines.
—Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
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On a whim one day, Randy put on a pot of brown stew oxtails, gingerly deboned them by hand after eight hours, and blanketed a pizza in the sweet, sticky mixture.
—Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2025
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For those opposed to large primal cuts of cow, consider the sea bream, which is cleverly deboned yet served whole with charred halves of lemon and orange that beg to be given a liberal squeeze.
—Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
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Classics like spaghetti pomodoro, whole branzino deboned tableside and roast chicken are simple, but perfectly prepared.
—Beth Landman, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
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All fish is deboned and flash frozen immediately after processing, according to the company.
—goodhousekeeping.com, 18 Apr. 2023
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