How to Use beef in a Sentence

beef

1 of 2 noun
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  • I'm not eating as much beef as I used to.
  • My real beef is with the organization's president, not the group itself.
  • Awards will go to the best ribs, pork and beef brisket.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023
  • While the night pics were less than stellar, that’s a small beef.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
  • It’s made with sautéed beef, topped with Cheese Whiz, and served on an amoroso roll.
    — Eduardo Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
  • Once the ground beef is cooked to medium-rare, add the sauteed onions and meat mixture.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Brown the ground beef: Brown the ground beef in a large skillet over medium heat.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Slice beef: Slice beef across the grain, and serve on top of vegetables.
    — Pati Jinich, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Add beef and break up with the back of a spoon until browned, about 6 minutes.
    — Micah A Leal, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2023
  • If the cattle still call, though, the meatballs are made with Montana beef.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The beef is buttery and smoky, with a side of fresh-cut shoestring fries and a tangy mustard-mayo dip.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Place pitas cut sides down, and grill until beef is charred, 1 to 2 minutes.
    — People Staff, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • Nothing like a good social media beef to flog the brand.
    — Corey Kilgannon Dar Yaskil, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • On top of that, Sam and Chris had some kind of long-simmering beef, and the bad vibes quickly engulfed the room.
    — Dante Ross, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The project follows the beef between the title characters.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the lagging supply, the demand for beef in the U.S. remains high.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 1 June 2023
  • Haggis is made of the liver, lungs, and heart of a sheep, beef or mutton suet, oatmeal, onion, and spices.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2023
  • To this day, the thought of her cheesy chicken spaghetti and creamy beef stroganoff rouses a deep urge to return to my youth.
    — Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Top with beef, then cheese; repeat for two more layers.
    — Anna Theoktisto, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
  • Read Selena Gomez’s lips: there was no beef at the Golden Globes!
    — Vulture, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Inside a tortilla are noodles, beef, herbs and bean sprouts, all which get a bath in the deep fryer.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Cover and cook on LOW until beef is tender, 6 to 8 hours.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The last quarter of your plate is for protein so that’s your chicken, beef and other meats.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Step 2In large bowl, toss beef and broccoli with oil and 1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper.
    — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2023
  • Promoters promised fans and the media that this five-year long beef between the two would produce a war.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • For instance, a serving of beef is 3 ounces (about the size of a deck of cards) and a serving of ice cream is half a cup (about the size of half a tennis ball).
    — Alisa Hrustic, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
  • But, with Kim listening in, the beef between the sisters only got worse.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Craft house started out in 2016 as a food truck serving burgers made from a blend of fresh-ground chuck, short rib and brisket beef.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The night started off with the pair building skewers made of beef tips, shrimp, onions, mushrooms and bell peppers.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • This husband-and-wife duo serves beef hot dogs with Korean flair.
    — Ronny Maye, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
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beef

2 of 2 verb
  • She's always beefing about something.
  • That might enable a trade of one of the kids to beef up the pitching staff.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Czapary said the force is at a hiring low and needs to beef up.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • Grab a hotel room, beef up for the last stretch, and then sprint those last 160 miles to the border.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 13 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the first time the pair has faux beefed in Drake’s comments section.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Most cold cuts and beef hot dogs will go up around 10% and coffee around 5%.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Those things were important to me to help beef up that sound.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Mind you, this is when Perry and Swift were still beefing.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • So is the formula to have a big week to give Zaidi reason to beef up at the deadline?
    — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2022
  • The Rams have the playmakers on both sides of the ball but the Bills made sure to beef up their only true weakness; their defense.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The Giants have tried to beef up their wide-receiver corps in the past two offseasons.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Disney didn’t pay $4 billion for Star Wars shows to beef with each other.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Or beef up your support team so your customers can get a human being on the damn phone.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Yankee and Omar had been beefing since reggaeton’s heyday in the 2000s.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Hendrickson and Ogunjobi were signed as free agents before the season to beef up the pass rush and run defense.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Instead, the White House floated an idea to beef up grants and loans to incentive clean energy sources.
    — Alan Fram, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, the White House floated an idea to beef up grants and loans to incentivize clean-energy sources.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Diaz would experiment with the smoker, from beer can chicken to beef ribs to brisket.
    — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Use short strokes angled in the direction of hair growth to beef up bald spots, but stay within your natural brow line.
    — Paige Stables, Allure, 30 June 2022
  • Could funds be further used to beef up mental health services outside prisons–so that people need not land there in the first place?
    — Morgan Simon, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • For lunch, there is pizza, peanut butter and jelly, fresh broccoli and dip, chicken patties, beef hot dogs and more.
    — Jane Bokun, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2022
  • Back on the boat with Kaine and Luria, Eskridge was already thinking about all the ways the island could use the dredging material to beef up the shoreline or the uplands.
    — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2022
  • If companies haven’t already taken steps to beef up their security, now is the time to catch up.
    — Mark Roberts, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Both lawmakers said the advisers would help beef up the presence at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and assist in other areas.
    — Melissa Chrise, Fox News, 24 July 2022
  • If East Hampton does vote to put armed guards in schools, the district will join a growing number of towns looking to beef up security.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2022
  • Afterward, Cindy Iodice said her family’s goal is to make drivers more aware of the need to obey Move Over laws — and to get police to beef up enforcement.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2022
  • The bar kicks the kids play area up to the Terrace (fourth) deck, which will have more room behind section 406 and now include a rubber playground flooring system to beef up the safety.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The city has launched several initiatives to beef up its police ranks and better use resources.
    — Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The city is also paying deputies overtime to beef up traffic enforcement.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Stressing a muscle, such as by lifting heavy weights, prompts the body to beef up that muscle by adding more sarcomeres within each fiber, like adding rings to a tree trunk.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022

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