STEAK in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for STEAK, such as:

1. The main dish is a steak.
2. We had beef steak for dinner.
3. Part of my steak isn't cooked properly.
4. That steak is bony and difficult to eat.
5. I hope the steak may be beef, but I don't believe it.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEAK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
steak
 n.  slice of meat, typically beef, usually cut thick
Classic Sentence:
1  When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
2  So up she ran from the cellar; and sure enough the rascally cur had got the steak in his mouth, and was making off with it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
3  Away ran Catherine, and away ran the dog across the field: but he ran faster than she, and stuck close to the steak.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
4  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
6  Well," said Stubb, helping himself freely meanwhile; "I shall now go back to the subject of this steak.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  I hope the steak may be beef, but I don't believe it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
8  I meekly ordered a bit of fish and a steak, and stood before the fire musing on his obscurity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
9  And now I am afraid Campbell will be here before there is time to dress a steak, and we have no butcher at hand.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  She was like the revolutionist at fifty: not afraid of death, but bored by the probability of bad steaks and bad breaths and sitting up all night on windy barricades.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night, Mr. Bumble sat himself down in the house at which the coach stopped; and took a temperate dinner of steaks, oyster sauce, and porter.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  That steak is bony and difficult to eat.
2  We had beef steak for dinner.
3  The main dish is a steak.
4  Part of my steak isn't cooked properly.
5  It is, in my humble opinion, perhaps the best steak restaurant in Great Britain.
6  Vegetables are not normally served with steak in this manner, but a green salad may follow.
7  The size of the fish will determine the thickness of the steaks.
8  Graham was in his element, building a fire and cooking the steaks.
9  Lightly score the surface of the steaks with a knife.
10  The key to preventing spoilage is making sure the steaks are absolutely dry.