hambone

Example Sentences

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If you plunk the hambone into a pot of water with a halved onion and boil it for a couple of hours, you’ll be rewarded with a deep, sultry broth.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

For Norvell, it is also important to recognize that African-Americans in the northeast forged traditions of their own, though not as well known as Southern traditions such as banjo playing and juba, a dance style also called hambone.

From Reuters • May 29, 2015

I’ve pretty much always enjoyed watching Penn in everything, not despite of his hambone tendency to milk every moment of every shot but because of it.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2015

And that they’re willing to put up with our hambone antics as we try to fill them in.

From Slate • May 29, 2014

Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding