a la mode
Example Sentences
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“He would say they had ‘class à la mode.’
From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2020
The backdrop is a cubist cityscape; their hair is cropped in the manner of Parisian garçons; and their red lips and shaded eyes are thoroughly à la mode.
From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2018
Don’t miss: The bleu cheese haystack -- a pile of shoestring fries covered in blue cheese and buffalo wing sauce -- and the apple-filled glazed doughnut served à la mode.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2015
Goodbye baked chicken breasts; hello pot roast with chestnut-braised green beans and pumpkin pie à la mode.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2012
The "dining-rooms," "à la mode beef shops," and "chop-houses" abounded in the "City," and with unvarying monotony served four, six, or ninepenny "plates" with astonishing rapidity, quite rivalling in a way the modern "quick lunch."
From Dickens' London by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
