VEAL in a Sentence

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Example sentences for VEAL, such as:

1. But veal is dear, and everybody in the house is sick of beef and mutton.
2. Each dinner, she likes to cook a thin slice of meat, usually veal or lamb, cut from the leg or ribs.
3. In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.

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 Meanings and Examples of VEAL
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veal
 n.  flesh of a calf when killed and used for food
Classic Sentence:
1  She ordered the calf killed, because he drank so much of the precious milk, and that night everyone ate so much fresh veal all of them were ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  As seen from Main Street, Oleson & McGuire's Meat Market had a sanitary and virtuous expression with its new tile counter, fresh sawdust on the floor, and a hanging veal cut in rosettes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
5  The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
6  Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP
7  But veal is dear, and everybody in the house is sick of beef and mutton.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  So Chichikov made the attempt; and in very truth the veal was beyond all praise, and room was found for it, even though one would have supposed the feat impossible.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Each dinner, she likes to cook a thin slice of meat, usually veal or lamb, cut from the leg or ribs.