marinate

No, I will take full accountability and marinate in my stupidity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The Rams don’t have much time to marinate in the victory: the rival San Francisco 49ers are coming to town on Thursday night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

"Sometimes a song needs to marinate for a year, six months, it can take some time," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025

I will typically use it to marinate flank steak, but recently I used it with my grilled chicken and stone fruit chutney, and it reminded me how this sauce really does go with everything.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

Ma had shown me how to marinate it with soya, garlic, and fermented black bean.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Matsuzaki marinates pork belly for several days, then presses and sears the meat, concentrating the flavor of the pork, which he slips into tender bao buns with carrot matchsticks, cucumber slices and jalapeño.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

He says he marinates his steak with sofrito and sazón, a spice mix containing achiote, a spice with an earthy, smoky flavor.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021

As this happens, our culture marinates in the toxic assumption "that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake."

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021

Thomas Kail compared Mr. Rockwell to a jazz musician, who only makes surprising riffs after “he takes every scene and examines it and scrutinizes it and marinates in it.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2019

Now behold water-spouts vomiting as they rush over the pavements, and rubbish marinates in puddles that fill the holes scooped out of the macadam.

From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

The app has boosted lesser-known businesses and sent tourists in droves to unconventional locations such as Zibo, a quiet industrial city in Shandong, after its cheap, marinated barbecue skewers went viral.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The marinated and charbroiled chicken shawarma—which Winnebago drivers can order in a party-platter size for $89.99—is a highlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

It conjures something overly marinated, vaguely limp, sitting in the back of a deli case.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

It’s billed as different from “your average rib sandwich,” with ribs that have been hand-deboned, marinated in a proprietary barbecue-sauce blend with apple-cider vinegar, then slow-cooked for nine hours.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

The waitress brings a platter of the marinated meat and starts cooking it.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

In the classroom, trainees crowded around instructor Luo Duocheng as he demonstrated slicing a slab of beef, marinating it, and skewering the meat to form identical kebabs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

This isn’t Tom Brady marinating on an Eames chair for six weeks before deciding to give football another go.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

After marinating, you will want to set some aside for an easy dip or salad dressing.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

We’re marinating on some ideas to cook something up for them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

The ground beef was marinating in so much lard it looked as if it were encased in Jell-O.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben