skewer
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The old crowded wait has become a couch scroll until your green bean skewer and brisket noodles appear by e-bike.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Hunched over sizzling grills and shrouded in smoke, trainees at the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in southern China roast skewer after skewer of succulent beef tendon, perfecting the skills that could land them a restaurant job.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
And skewer others: the butterfly keyboard, FineWoven cases, walled gardens, Siri and AirPower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Every political campaign needs a good slogan – a snappy phrase to energise voters and skewer opponents.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
The red peppers and onions on the skewer were slathered in so much sauce, you could hardly blame them for being healthy.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
But Gouzer said he expects Banksy’s market to keep rebuilding, thanks to a fresh influx of younger tech collectors and international wild-card buyers who admire the roguish way Banksy skewers societal ills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
When you get hungry, take a quick walk to Checker Hall, a neighborhood bar and restaurant that serves California-Mediterranean food such as skewers, turkish chicken and chicken schnitzel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Top your mocktail with fried bacon, cheese on skewers and pepperoni.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
Eels, called "unagi" in Japan, have been consumed there for millennia and are now typically grilled on skewers and dipped in a soy and rice wine sauce.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Twelve feet below him was a half-finished concrete wall, with rebar jutting outward like blunt skewers.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Their choreographed debate exploited and skewered stereotypes via expert timing and pointed wit, hitting home with the predominantly Asian and South Asian audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Away from the gilded hallways, “SNL” skewered the design sense of both Trumps.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
On a podcast a few months after her paid posts for Hers, she skewered the medical profession for pushing antidepressants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
The rest they sliced and skewered, roasted with care, then took it off the fire and heaped it up on platters.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
Adams drew on his experience as a bank teller and manager at a phone company Pacific Bell for inspiration, skewering corporate jargon and middle management.
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026
But on a weekly show on CNN, “Have I Got News For You,” where Wood hosts a panel skewering headline-makers, the president is one of the comedian’s go-to targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
When it premiered back in 2021, “The White Lotus” was a sharp class satire aimed at skewering high-end tourism and the elite one-percenters willing to pay $9,000 a night to relax.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
Soon he came out, a gangling, tall, reddish-brownskinned fellow, at that time thirty- five years old; when my purpose was made known, he brisded, his eyes skewering me from behind the hom-rimmed glasses.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
