How to Use offal in a Sentence

offal

noun
  • This new menu was heavy on fish, birds, and offal—but no steak.
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 27 Sep. 2021
  • But what’s a little blood sausage and offal in a town that eats menudo for breakfast?
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The man was pestilence, a virus, a stinking glob of human offal.
    Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The butchers were allowed to keep the offal for their troubles.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Do not deposit litter, fish offal or any foreign matter in any waters.
    Mika Travis, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
  • The head, tail, and all the off-cuts (offal), making up a fifth quarter, were left to butchers and poor people.
    oregonlive, 21 Apr. 2023
  • There’s an offal of the day, priced generously to reflect the cheaper cut.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
  • But some researchers think this could be the opportunity for offal to make a comeback of sorts.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The shop also sells wine, salads, seasonings, side dishes and offal.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Of all the offal, this one's perhaps the easiest to stomach (apologies for the awful pun).
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
  • The organ meats, often called offal, are much less common in the Western diet.
    Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Many bear problems happen around hunting camps and fly-in fishing sites because the bears get used to finding offal and garbage there.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Here, most of the dishes have been borrowed from famous French chefs, and the food is old-school — the sort that’s not afraid of cream or offal.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Yun cheung, on the other hand, is mostly made with offal from poultry, giving it a stronger and gamier flavor.
    Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The choices, which cover all manner of meat, offal, seafood, vegetable, noodles, and bean curd, can be dizzying.
    Craig Laban, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Frog legs, offal and escargot at fine dining establishments are prepared by some of the world’s top chefs.
    Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Lobster three ways using meat, shells and offal demonstrates a tradition of letting nothing go to waste.
    Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Organ meats — including kidneys, liver and heart — are also known as offal.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • In the thick atmosphere, stray dogs fight with seabirds for scraps of offal and urinate against the barrels of blood and salt water where waiting fish float.
    Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The wolves scattered the bones, starting that first spring, their faces perpetually crimson with the offal of the corpses.
    Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • But beans and offal hold zero appeal atop a gallon of Rioja and 16 gin-tónics.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Certainly in France, the offal is used in elegant ways, the liver, the kidney.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 23 Oct. 2022
  • With pet food products ranging from offal to insects to alligators, who’s to say vegan can’t join the mix?
    Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This carnivore’s sanctum offers an education in offal, mapping the pig from trompa (snout) to rabo (tail).
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
  • During the war, citizens were encouraged to eat offal and save muscle cuts for soldiers, according to many sources.
    Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • Trippa alla Romana is a classic and beloved dish of cucina povera, in which offal takes the spotlight from more-expensive cuts.
    Luke Pyenson, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In Lyon, the idea of an offal sausage, or andouillette, without its mustard sauce is as inconceivable as cheese starved of wine.
    New York Times, 14 July 2022
  • Kennedy recently encouraged people to embrace offal as a more affordable source of protein.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Footage from the Legislative Yuan showed offal lying on the parliament's red floor, and on some lawmakers' clothes.
    Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 28 Nov. 2020
  • In many restaurants across the country, animal organs such as beef offal are displayed to show freshness, especially for hotpot.
    Peter Guo, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025

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