Example sentences for: mutton

How can you use “mutton” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • the cow’s flank, c. horse meat, d. mutton

  • Beef or Mutton?

  • As to mutton bird, tastes vary: it may have required as W.H. Leigh wrote in 1839 a desperate stomach to attack such an oily mass, but Ralph Clarke in 1790 lovingly packed a box for his beloved woman, Containing a Mount Pit Bird, A Mutton Bird.

  • Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.

  • A raw leg of mutton in the foreground of one of the paintings matches the couple's tired flesh while a stove burns brightly--Stanley's repressed desire, perhaps--in the background.


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