skewer
noun
a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
skewered
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past participleof skewer.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof skewer.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
skewernouna long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
Example Sentences
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The smell hits first, garlic and char on skewered meat, chiles brushed over buns, oyster sauce mingling with the syrupy edge of black vinegar on sizzling noodles.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
I worked at a magazine when the first film, which lightly skewered Anna Wintour, came out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
His pen skewered power with elegance and edge, especially during the 1975 Emergency, a 21-month stretch of suspended civil liberties and muzzled media under Indira Gandhi's rule.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
The rest they sliced and skewered, roasted with care, then took it off the fire and heaped it up on platters.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
