main course
Example Sentences
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Now, thanks to inflation and stubbornly high grocery bills, they’re more often getting promoted—sometimes to the main course.
Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, called the indictment this week from a New York grand jury “the appetizer to their main course still to come.”
From Seattle Times
Fish tends to be my default main course, although a plump pork chop massaged with “porchetta” spice and splayed on cranberry beans and smoky radicchio provides stiff competition.
From Washington Post
Sushi variations, hand rolls, hot and cold Japanese appetizers, and main courses are highlights of the menu.
From New York Times
The salad is dressed in a bracing, shallot-spiked mustard vinaigrette and garnished with dill fronds and lemon wedges for an elegant main course that answers the call for something deliciously different with no cooking required.
From Seattle Times
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