noun
eel
the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
In a sentence
Six example sentences with eel, each labelled with its topic.
Grilled eel is brushed with a sweet soy glaze three times over the coals, never marinated before it cooks.
Cooking
Every eel in the river began life thousands of miles away, drifting back as a transparent ribbon barely visible.
Science
A canal side stall in Utrecht serves eel on brown bread, wrapped in paper and eaten standing up.
Travel
Medieval tenants paid rent in eel, and one abbey recorded sixty thousand of them arriving each year.
History
European eel numbers have fallen by more than ninety percent, and dams block the young from reaching the rivers.
Environment
The price of eel has climbed for years as catches shrink, and a single serving now costs as much as a steak.
Economics
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