gristle

Definitions

Examples

• As an advertiser, “you have to get comfortable with the fact that, if you’re buying sausage, there’s going to be a lot of fat and gristle in there,” this executive said.

• She was mostly gristle and bone when we saw her, lying in the sun with her legs spread and a grimace on her face.

• Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”

• Bone would prove too unyielding, but cartilage, or gristle, meets the case exactly.

• It begins to have a little more consistence, and the future bones begin to resemble cartilage, or gristle.

• Remove the fillet from a fine loin of mutton, trim away every particle of skin, fat, and gristle.

• There is salt which was in the saliva, in the gristle, and in the blood.

• Reivers struck, and Moirs nose disappeared in a welter of blood and gristle.