How to Use quail in a Sentence

quail

noun

• We had quail for dinner.
• On the menu: quail stuffed with wild rice and white grapes.
  — Marvin Joseph, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
• Kobe-beef tartare comes with crème fraîche, a quail egg, and foie gras.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• The Mearns quails have separate lodgings from the rest of the farm's birds.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
• And that rich quail flavor with smoky bacon and the heat from the jalapeno just can’t be beat.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 22 Dec. 2020
• The show, which rotates from city to city in the pheasant and quail range, is a bird hunter’s dream world.
  — Brent Frazee, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The famous writer could shoot 18 doves a day, 15 ducks or a dozen quail.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2023
• Baxter noticed there was no way to track the quail at Lake Lewisville.
  — Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
• Cordúa treats Flay to a soft-shell crawfish taco and a quail Wellington.
  — Therese Odell, Chron, 4 Nov. 2021
• The quail of the little milpas, which is what the Mexicans call their farm fields, are a case in point.
  — Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 Nov. 2023
• As Dunklin put it, the demise of the quail in this part of the state wasn't due to hunting pressure but a loss of habitat.
  — Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2020
• Put down the ketchup and mustard in favor of more fun toppings, such as lemon aioli and quail eggs.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2022
• Instead the researchers used a quail muscle cell line to knock out FBP2.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
• Over the decades, the aviary has been home to birds from all over the world as well as housing more run-of-the-mill fowl like pigeons, turkeys and quail.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2023
• Dickel’s Smokehouse has jalapeño-cheese sausage and quail.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
• The bride wore a leather glove with a piece of quail meat attached to entice Marty the falcon to swoop down and land on her arm.
  — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• Duck in for a Diet Coke, and walk out with a cowhide flask, pickled quail eggs, and beaver-faced fuzzy slippers.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• The thalamus is about the size and shape of a quail egg and sits deep in the brain, relaying info all around the cortex.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 11 May 2021
• Tom Mix and Harry Houdini once lived there among the quail and scrub pine and coyotes.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Hunting is no longer about killing a limit of squirrels or quail.
  — Durrell Smith, Outdoor Life, 20 Nov. 2020
• The difference is that nature put the quail there, while human beings put the cats there.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• His third project was quail preservation at Lake Lewisville.
  — Harriet L. Blake, Dallas News, 23 July 2021
• Top with some horseradish cream and a quail egg yolk, if using.
  — Betsy Andrews, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2020
• Sometimes those sounds are the yelps and barks of coyotes, the muttering of quail, or the soft cooing of mourning doves at the first hint of the new day.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Gore wrote that the property once housed bees, quail, chickens and sheep after it was built in 1983.
  — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2022
• Here, in my opinion, are the best shotshell loads for winter ducks, geese, pheasants, grouse, and quail.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 20 Jan. 2021
• In past seasons, menus have included veal carpaccio, quail, and burrata tortelli.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026
• During fall hunting season, Game and Fish urged the public to go easy on the state’s quails due to their low stock numbers.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• There are also coops on the property for about 19 chickens and a handful of quail also tended by students.
  — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2026
• Bobwhite quail and whitetail deer can be found on the land.
  — Nick Wooten, Dallas Morning News, 29 Jan. 2026