Gizzard is an English word with synonyms like pouch or pocket. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gizzard meaning
- A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
- The (human) stomach.
Using Gizzard
- The main meaning on this page is: A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit. | The (human) stomach.
- Useful related words include: ventriculus, gastric mill, pouch, pocket.
- In the example corpus, gizzard often appears in combinations such as: king gizzard, gizzard shad, the gizzard.
Context around Gizzard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gizzard
- In this selection, "gizzard" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, king, serve, american, shad, liver and bacon stand out and add context to how "gizzard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a gizzard to grind and at king gizzard s studio. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gizzard" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gizzard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Let me introduce King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. (9 words)
Seven of the fruits were crushed by the bird's gizzard. (11 words)
At King Gizzard’s studio in Melbourne, was recorded almost 100% live. (12 words)
A more classy version, called "le petit déjeuner du voyageur" where delicatessens serve gizzard, bacon, salmon, omelet, or croque-monsieur, with or without soft-boiled egg and always with the traditional coffee/tea/chocolate along fruits or fruit juice. (39 words)
DeMarco is bringing a giant list of friends along with him as well, like Amyl & The Sniffers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Alice Skye, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Pond, Miss Blanks, Remi, Cut Copy and more. (37 words)
It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius. (34 words)
Example sentences (12)
To add even more interest to giblet gravy, Bourbon says to “roughly chop the gizzard, liver and heart.
At King Gizzard’s studio in Melbourne, was recorded almost 100% live.
DeMarco is bringing a giant list of friends along with him as well, like Amyl & The Sniffers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Alice Skye, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Pond, Miss Blanks, Remi, Cut Copy and more.
Let me introduce King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
Try prepared dip baits, chicken livers, minnows or chubs, green sunfish, bluegill, crawdads, frogs, night crawlers or dead, but fresh, goldeye or gizzard shad.
A more classy version, called "le petit déjeuner du voyageur" where delicatessens serve gizzard, bacon, salmon, omelet, or croque-monsieur, with or without soft-boiled egg and always with the traditional coffee/tea/chocolate along fruits or fruit juice.
Digestive system The aardvark's stomach has a muscular pyloric area that acts as a gizzard to grind swallowed food up, thereby rendering chewing unnecessary.
Eagles living in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland were found to subsist largely on American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum), threadfin shad (D.
It used gizzard stones to help digest its food, which is thought to have included fruits, and its main habitat is believed to have been the woods in the drier coastal areas of Mauritius.
Seven of the fruits were crushed by the bird's gizzard.
The lake is also home to a robust population of "sawbellies", the local term for gizzard shad.
They lay on grass which they collect, and make their nests in the forests; if one kills the young one, a grey stone is found in the gizzard.
Common combinations with gizzard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: