entrails

[US]/'entreɪlz/
[UK]/'ɛntrelz/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.intestines, viscera;the internal parts of something

Phrases & Collocations

examining the entrails

Example Sentences

digging copper out of the entrails of the earth.

The surgeon carefully examined the entrails of the patient.

The ritual involved the sacrifice of an animal and the reading of its entrails.

The hunter gutted the deer and removed its entrails.

The fortune teller claimed to be able to predict the future by studying entrails.

The chef carefully cleaned the fish entrails before cooking.

The ancient practice of haruspicy involved examining entrails for signs of the future.

The butcher removed the entrails from the slaughtered animal.

In some cultures, the entrails of certain animals are considered a delicacy.

The veterinarian examined the cat's entrails to determine the cause of its illness.

The ancient Romans believed that the entrails of animals could reveal the will of the gods.

Real-world Examples

Not if it involves finding rat entrails in our new office, no.

Source: American TV series Person of Interest Season 4

Then, she wrings the birds' necks and cuts them open to examine their entrails for divine messages.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

Their analysis of bat faeces and entrails shows nothing this time.

Source: Environment and Science

Jobs with titles like " gut snatcher" require people to work closely, slicing open pigs and pulling out entrails.

Source: New York Times

Their reunion in its entrails blends biblical imagery with Freudian fever dream.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Very good guide to all your basic fortune-telling methods— palmistry, crystal balls, bird entrails.”

Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

And the children began howling as if they already had frightful pains in their entrails.

Source: Madame Bovary (Part Two)

" Perhaps. But before you can wind it again my cousin here will spill your entrails on the floor" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

While " garbage" originally meant giblets of a fowl or entrails and waste parts of an animal.

Source: "Minute Earth" Fun Science (Selected Bilingual)

Other than priests, there were also Augustus, who interpreted omens exposed to them through animal entrails and the flight of birds.

Source: Encyclopedia of World History

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