canape

Example Sentences

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His “Experience” starts with a lush caviar canapé, followed by tangy vegetables à la grecque and a creamy lasagna freckled with black winter truffle.

From New York Times

GQ food writer Brett Martin didn’t include Paju in his recent list of the Best New Restaurants in America, though he does give Paju a shout-out in a roster of runners-up: “I wish you could try the weird and wonderful endive salad at Paju, in Seattle, each leaf cradling walnuts, burrata, and an emulsified, jellylike smoked vinaigrette, like a delirious ’70s canapé.”

From Seattle Times

Some Savonarola-type person will dash the glass of rosé out of your hand, throw your canape into the Med and tell you Cannes is not about red-carpet narcissism, not about stars preening in the flashbulb glare of celeb-worship, not about L’Oréal sponsorship, not about getting drunk at a million late-night parties.

From The Guardian

Often at pains to appear polite and decent, I have consigned manners to oblivion and chased canapé trays at parties, helping myself to handfuls at a time.

From The Guardian

A Proust canapé is better than no Proust at all.

From The Guardian