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Example sentences for "skewered"

Lexicographically close words:
sketchy; skew; skewbald; skewed; skewer; skewers; skid; skidded; skidding; skids
  1. In roasting a very little water goes into the bag, instead thin pieces of fat, salt pork are skewered across the breast and around the drum sticks.

  2. Smelts skewered in rings, using a wooden toothpick to hold heads and tails together, dipped in milk, well floured and fried in deep fat, make an attractive fish course.

  3. Sometimes funnel-shaped rice-receptacles are used, which are skewered with a bamboo skewer and called keronchot.

  4. The limas is a receptacle of about a span (sa-jengkal) in length, made of banana-leaf folded together at the ends and skewered with a bamboo pin.

  5. The fish may be skewered in the shape of the letter S, or placed in an upright position on a well-greased fish sheet, laid in the bottom of a dripping-pan.

  6. Children skewered on a bayonet midst the cheers of marching Germans--as if the child were a quail, skewered on a fork!

  7. The skin should be taken off and skewered on again before the meat is put on the spit; this will make it more juicy.

  8. The head, neck, and feet should be cut off, and the ends of the legs skewered in the bodies.

  9. Her hat, a very dainty little affair of plain black velvet, was skewered with a couple of jewelled hatpins to the upholstery of the settee.

  10. It was a little velvet hat, skewered to the upholstery of the settee by a couple of jewelled hat-pins.

  11. The pieces were skewered and roasted over the fire, each man being his own cook.

  12. The meat was cut into cubical slabs, and each person skewered a dozen or so of these on a long stick.

  13. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor.

  14. His knife, I made certain, had skewered Scudder to the floor.

  15. Saying these words rather slowly, he skewered his great eyes into mine, so that I could not think at all, neither look at him, nor yet away.

  16. The side of the rump, skin and all, with as much flesh as can be dug out with it, is cut off; the edges of the skin are then gathered together and skewered like a pudding bag (see Fig.

  17. Like so many grouse, they were skewered upon my brave Cossack's bayonet.

  18. No," he replied gravely, "with my bayonet I skewered each cap with the same thrust that sent its owner to God.

  19. Ah," I said, "afterwards you went back and with your bayonet skewered each Austrian cap where it lay beside its dead owner.

  20. Hurry up, man; hurry, if you don't want to be skewered like a stuck pig!

  21. I've got a camera here that I bought special, thinking it would be fun later to show round my album in the States an' point out this man being skewered on a bayonet an' that one being disrupted by a bomb an' the next lot charging a trench.

  22. A little child of two years came out and a soldier skewered the child on his bayonet, and carried it away while his comrades sang.

  23. A Belgian babe, skewered upon the bayonet, driven through his stomach, with his little dead head and hands and legs dangling as the German proudly carried it through the street of a village.

  24. The rump should be split, and skewered back on each side.

  25. A slip of paper should be skewered on the breast-bone; when the breast is rising, take off the paper, and be careful to serve it before the breast falls, or it will be spoiled by coming flat to the table.

  26. The first part that turns bad in a leg of veal, is where the udder is skewered back: of course the skewer should be taken out, and both that and the part under it wiped every day.

  27. In dressing a loin or saddle of mutton, the skin must be loosened, and then skewered on; but it should be removed before the meat is done, and the joint basted and made to froth up.

  28. These are to be trussed and skewered the same as snipes and quails.

  29. The legs should be skewered back before roasting, or the under part will not be crisp.

  30. The upper part is next broken by the hand down to the middle, salted, pressed, weighted, and skewered as before, till all the whey is extracted.

  31. Cleaning it of its entrails, another unpleasant task, he cut the meat up into sizable chunks, skewered a couple of pieces on a metal rod which had been part of one of the cages from the rocket, and sat down to cook it over the open fire.

  32. The sharp missile skewered the Moonbeast and the animal twisted in mid-air and fell thrashing to the ground.

  33. He found a bit of rabbit meat, took it out, and skewered it on a cooking stick.

  34. I've known a man to be skewered on those antlers afore you could shout, and killed jest as dead as possible.

  35. Ready," came the answer, while George held a stick to which the steaks were skewered aloft.

  36. They made a cheerful party round the fire, and Joe sniffed expectantly as George skewered some steaks and set them to frizzle over the blaze.

  37. George produced from a mysterious parcel a lump of meat, and having cut it into dainty slices, skewered them in a long row on a maple stick he had cut and cleaned, and at once began to toast them over the flames.

  38. They sell kabobs--little cubes of meat skewered on a long stick and grilled over charcoal.

  39. And with his pieces of meat awkwardly skewered on his iron stick he tried to poke under the authorised kid and get at the fire.

  40. The ribs can be removed and used for stock, and the beef rolled or skewered firmly, making a piece very easily carved, and almost as presentable the second day as the first.

  41. A second bird was done the same way, and the two portions were then skewered through with a piece of hard, green wood, sprinkled with salt, and handed to the black boy, who soon had them frizzling merrily over a glowing fire.

  42. Then cutting off a large piece of the turkey, he skewered it in the same manner, and hung up the rest for Toby to eat.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skewered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.