Examples of gristly

• Meat from the muscular areas of an animal's body is often tough, gristly, and fatty.

• My companion's beef was so gristly that she had to spit out chunks of it.

• You're likely to find a leathery egg barely covered in gristly sausagemeat.

• Slice each kidney in half lengthways and cut out the little white gristly bit in the middle.

• Unwashed and full of sand and grit, meat is gristly, tough and eaten with the hide still attached.

• A good small joint is better than a mass of gristly stewing steak.

• She said that it tasted of bleach and was made tough and gristly by the addition of valves made from something like dried pasta.

• The peridium is double-layered: the outer layer, which occasionally features lime tubercles, is rough, gristly, wrinkled and shiny to faint, and the membranous inner layer is iridescent.