Sentence examples for like a truffle from inspiring English sources

Inside were golden grids, each pocket watch nestled in a small divot, like a truffle.

Mark had a nose like a truffle hound's when it came to seeking out specialist shops.

There's Nothing Like a Truffle Q. Are there any tasty substitutes for truffles or truffle oil? A. No.

About 60 channels are active, and during a week spent rooting among them like a truffle hog in the YouTube forest, I unearthed more than a few tasty morsels.

(In a strange physical disproportion, she had nearly no neck. "She looks more like a truffle than a violet," Marcel Proust had said of her when he saw her one night at the Ritz).

It is a pure sensual overload of richness and strangeness and sadness, a film sometimes on the point of swooning with dissolute languour, savouring its own ennui like a truffle.

A joint venture by two Parisian purveyors -- Caviar Kaspia and La Maison de la Truffe -- the restaurant spotlights rich ingredients like a truffle-poached egg (9 euros), a wild Baltic smoked salmon (18 euros) and mussel casserole with truffle cream (24 euros).

Won that round of Twitter and like a truffle-hunting pig off I go, rooting for more treasures in the social-media underbrush.

There's a small Truffle Museum (www.museodeltartufo.it ) in San Giovanni d'Asso, south of Siena, for instance, that has not only lined up a comparative truffle tasting, but also harnessed special equipment to create an "odorama," to give visitors an idea of what it's like to be a truffle hound.

With these, he was like a pig with a truffle.

There is nothing like the taste of a truffle, and nothing as delicate as its essence.