How to Use sweetbread in a Sentence

sweetbread

noun

• Shortbread is a thick cookie, and a sweetbread is not sweet and not bread.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2021
• One course, Tourte, consisted of a domed pastry filled with a chop of duck, foie gras and sweetbreads.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
• Or go ahead and order the 14-inch giant concha sweetbread.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Jan. 2026
• During dinner, we were brought everything from homemade chorizo to blood sausage, sweetbreads, and short ribs to chow down on.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
• Panettone is still the darling of the Bay Area’s holiday sweetbread scene.
  — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 15 Dec. 2025
• His sweetbreads in pig trotter ragu evoke his memories of eating pork knuckle at his grandmother’s house.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
• Her must-orders include the crispy veal sweetbreads and the famous artichoke soup with black truffle and mushroom brioche.
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
• Served in a rich, almost caramel-like vermouth and veal jus, the sweetbreads taste like a rich Christmas Eve dinner in four small bites.
  — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2025
• Dishes are playful and savvy, like scallops married to sweetbreads under the cover of a sauce meunière.
  — Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• The menu features comforting classics like sweetbreads, Basque-style beans, txuleton steaks, and leg of lamb.
  — Michael Moberly, Saveur, 13 Aug. 2025
• The asador is placed next to the flames, but the coals from the fire are used under a large, flat mesh grill to cook other options, such as chicken, sweetbreads, blood sausage and flank steak.
  — Josephine Parr, Town & Country, 21 Aug. 2015
• Then, the whole dish — married with bison sweetbreads — is roasted and presented in a clear bowl to resemble an arboretum.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025
• Its heat caresses a skewer of marshmallow-tender veal sweetbreads shining beneath a lip-sticky demi-glace.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
• Look for rabbit with pancetta, pan- roasted foie gras, shrimp brulee, cobia with West Indian pumpkin or sweetbreads.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• Mike Friedman really wants diners to try his sweetbreads at the new Aventino in Bethesda.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• Enjoy buffalo sweetbreads with bleu cheese mousse; burgers with garlic cheddar fondue; beef fat popovers; and a full New England clam bake.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• Bernstein’s main dish consisted of a sweetbread infused with onion flavors, whereas Flay went with salmon paired with Dungeness crab in a saffron onion sauce.
  — Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
• Some people wondered if too many unusual dishes like General Tso sweetbreads were partially to blame.
  — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 15 Dec. 2017
• The pastry clung to a thin layer of aspic that enveloped a filing of pork shoulder and fat, bacon, chicken liver, veal sweetbreads, and button, shiitake and wood ear mushrooms.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
• The menu includes other appetizers from the grill like chorizo, sweetbreads and romanesco and raw bar selections like beef or tuna tartare, octopus carpaccio, hamachi and oysters.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
• To honor the deceased, foods such as sugar skulls, sweetbread rolls and beverages are arranged on ofrendas, or house altars, along with clay ornaments and sentimental objects.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
• Inside the spare, industrial space, plates are thoughtful and refined, and include rabbit with pistachios, ras-el-hanout, and potatoes; and cappelletti with foie gras, sweetbreads, pecans, and maple.
  — Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• Now comes the brilliant addition of a sweetbreads option on the fajita parilladas offered by El Tiempo at their Westheimer annex.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
• Galleries in Little Haiti now feature conceptual installations, a shop deals in vinyl records and foodies can nibble on Argentine sweetbreads.
  — Simon Romero, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Not to mention bollito misto, the more stubborn parts of meat brought to heel by being boiled in a delicious broth for hours, or the intriguing finanziera, a hearty stew made from sweetbreads, testicles, and chicken parts, gamy-flavored and refined.
  — Oddur Thorisson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Jan. 2017
• The menu changes with the seasons but previous bites have included Yakama sturgeon with celeriac and arugula, Alaskan pink singing scallop en papillote, and sweetbread with leeks and yellow foot mushrooms.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
• There’s no better introduction to the Jack’s Wife Freda cookbook’s peri peri repertoire than the sweetbreads (cow brain soaked in milk and garlic, then battered and fried), immersed in a moat of rich, spicy, peri peri gravy.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appetit, 22 Mar. 2017
• The sweetbread is distributed internationally, mainly to businesses.
  — Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2017
• Perched on a promontory above the town, this elegant restaurant, also a Fourchette Bleue member, offers sophisticated international fare such as veal sweetbreads, seafood linguine and Thai soup.
  — Sylvie Bigar, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
• Panettone & Chocolate Gelato Style Frozen Dessert While Trader Joe's also sells whole loaves of the Italian sweetbread, but this version combines the cake with chocolate gelato to make a tasty treat.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025