How to Use debone in a Sentence

debone

verb
Definition of debonenext
  • Have the butcher debone the lamb for you.
  • Gochujang Chicken Thigh Skewers Buying skin-on, bone-in thighs and deboning them for this recipe is worth it for the skin, which crisps deliciously on the grill.
    — Ian Knauer, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For deboning: Guide the curved part of the blade around the bone.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • They were not deboned and were coming from out of state.
    — al, 21 Nov. 2019
  • At the seafood counter, fishmongers will cut and debone any piece of fish.
    — Paige Fowler, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Jacques Pépin taught me how to debone a chicken and how to roast chicken.
    — Alicia Kennedy, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Or, they are immediately deboned and thrown in the grind pile.
    — Cosmo Genova, Field & Stream, 21 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • That is the life of a line cook: slicing, dicing, peeling, deboning, and handling all the mise en place that restaurant kitchens need.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 20 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For this, Stringer debones an entire chicken without taking it apart.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2019
  • Even the chicken wings here are a haute ordeal, deboned and stuffed with a chicken mousseline given a Southeast Asian flavor with Thai chilies, herbs and lime.
    — Craig Laban, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
  • Whole flounder is fried to a crisp, deboned and delivered to the table with a flotilla of fresh herbs, woven rice noodles and lettuce to accompany the snowy fish.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Many processors offer bone-in cuts, but most do-it-yourselfers totally debone their meat.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The dakgalbi is seasoned and deboned chicken stir-fried with sliced rice cake, sweet potato, perilla leaves and cabbage.
    — Soon Kang, charlotteobserver, 20 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ramsay also shares fish deboning basics, how to make pasta dough, cook salmon, and master scrambled eggs.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Many seafood entrees are adorned with crab meat, such as the Flounder Imperial, a whole deboned flounder stuffed with crab — not crab salad, or any kind of bread stuffing, just pure lump crab meat.
    — Larry Olmsted, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • The Bazaar also serves the country’s daintiest chicken wings, which are confited, deboned, pressed, fried and treated to a doll-size cube of blue cheese and a housemade hot sauce enriched with chicken jus.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And for the first time robots also are deboning and filleting cod on Norwegian processing lines.
    — Laine Welch, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • More Italian in every respect is the whole branzino, carefully deboned at the table and served with a salsa verde that tastes equal parts sunshine (lemon, capers) and herb garden (basil, arugula).
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Shynekia Emanuel, who works nights on the deboning line in Camilla, said that his shift supervisors — the same people who had been checking workers’ temperatures — had tested positive for the virus.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020

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