tripes
Example Sentences
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“I could have chosen way worse than a finger, right? I could have made it, like, tripes, brain, buttocks, something big and fat, you know? But I did not,” Ducournau said.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2017
Barcelona, in yellow and red tripes up their back, are beaten back with a wave of head tennis before the visitors concede a throw in on their left.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2016
Then, as they had no wine, they made libation with clear spring water, broiling the entrails first; and when the bones were burnt and tripes shared, they spitted the carved meat.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
“Yes! I dream of tripes a la mode de Caen—warm—with sweetbread.”
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
As he went off, “They’re scurvy stuff,” Says he, “and not half ripe enough— And I’ve more rev’rence for my tripes Than to torment them with the gripes.”
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley
