loin
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One of its newly added appetizers is a grilled saltbush-crusted kangaroo loin.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
One group of ash-smeared men, some naked and some dressed in just loin cloth or marigold garland draped around their necks, marched in holding tridents, swords and small two-headed drums.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
Each course is practically a feast unto itself: vol-au-vent, roasted veal loin, poached turbot, baked Alaska — and that’s just the first half-hour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
We then braise that whole and separately pound out the rib loin paper-thin.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2023
I’d picked a gallon of cherries, harvested my fava beans, prepared the brine for the pig loin, made the stock, and soaked the dried morels in warm water.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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Sakai, who sells it wholesale, said that in recent years, his rates for Wagyu strip loins have fallen from $65 to $41 per pound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
Serving nearby clients like The Grey and Husk, he has created incentives for customers to purchase and use an entire animal, rather than just the ribs or loins.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
The child in her body hung from her lean loins like a knotty fruit and from her face every particle of flesh was gone, so that the jagged bones stood forth rock-like under her skin.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Vocabulary lists containing loin
Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 5
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 4
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"The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck
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