a la carte
Example Sentences
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While Williams-Sonoma offers a number of complete Thanksgiving dinners for delivery—including one featuring a Cajun-style fried turkey, and another with a honey-glazed ham—the kitchenware and gourmet-food retailer also offers dozens of à la carte offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025
They offer omakase and à la carte sushi.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2025
First-class passengers are even offered an à la carte menu and sit-down, waiter-service dining.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2024
And it sets up an ingenious, à la carte menu of legal protections and obligation that the couple can pick and choose among.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2023
I have halted in the Alte Wiese to descant on the usual dinner of Carlsbad, which, ordered à la carte, never costs more than a few shillings.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)
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