stewing

Example Sentences

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Stewing a piece of meat until it transforms from leather into something tender and succulent.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2025

Stewing in awkward silence with my guides, I struggled to reignite the conversation but couldn’t come up with anything witty on the topic of solar panels.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2019

Stewing away at her “outpost of the underworld” amid the reconciled shades of her sister and father, Electra wonders longingly about her missing brother, whom she has cast in the role of avenging angel.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2017

Stewing over my culpability, I put off calling Andy Harris’s partner, Fiona McPherson, and Rob Hall’s wife, Jan Arnold, for such a long time that they finally phoned me from New Zealand.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Stewing or fricasseeing is really cooking slowly in a sauce after the meat has first been browned in a little hot fat.

From The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) by Anonymous