bonne bouche

Example Sentences

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On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: “The White Nile” by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2023

Tom had fixed on this pool as his bonne bouche, as a child keeps its plums till the last, and stole over the bridge, stooping low to gain the point indicated.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

I would make the country my stable meal, my chops and fried potatoes, and London my occasional savoury bonne bouche.

From The Oyster by Peer

It might be mentioned here that just as turtle-soup is to their worships, so is wild cat to golden eagles—a bonne bouche par excellence, so to say.

From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry

“It’s rather curious, sir,” he said, handing a letter, which he had been keeping back as a sort of bonne bouche for the last piece of business transacted that morning.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville