sushi

[ soo-shee ]

nounJapanese Cooking.

cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri), formed around strips of vegetable or raw fish into a cylindrical seaweed-wrapped roll that is sliced into bite-size pieces (maki), or wrapped together with strips of vegetable or raw fish in a sheet of dried seaweed and rolled into a cone shape (temaki).

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Origin of sushi

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Japanese: “sour, sour rice”

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How to use sushi in a sentence

When I moved to Denver when I was 22, I was interviewed for this job at this sushi restaurant.
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In past games, sometimes he’d cut sushi the wrong way to poison his mark.
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By age 35, he says, if you’re not eating sushi, 95 percent chance you never will.
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The town was divided as ever, and people of Mitchell still had to wake up the next morning and face each other at the grocery store, church and the local sushi restaurant.
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Kristin Eftoski, who lives in New Jersey, says she’s active on social media, and recently posted about getting sushi on the beach.
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The best whiskies are made with finesse and the same attention to detail and mindfulness as the finest teas or sushi.
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Then he adds with resignation, “My wife eventually got fed up and decided we should go get the sushi.”
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Germans have a special bond with their wurst; like pizza and Italians; sushi and the Japanese; or beer and, well, the Germans.
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INSIDER TIPS: Take advantage of half-price sushi rolls, wines and sake flights during happy hour.
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Wonder and Lightning jump in: “And that guy Jiro, from Jiro Dreams of sushi!”
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British Dictionary definitions for sushi

sushi

/ (ˈsuːʃɪ) /

noun

a Japanese dish consisting of small cakes of cold rice with a topping esp of raw fish

Origin of sushi

from Japanese

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