mise

Example Sentences

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The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Then I just get at it: one big mise en place, one big protein cook-off, one big baked goods batch.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

"The process of mise en place, which is a restaurant standard practice, keeps you neat and organized as you work," she explains.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2023

“You know how a chef has a mise en place?” said Noel Casler, a podcaster and comedian.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2022

It is a queer landscape, but one of new natural beauties frankly and sympathetically discovered, and it forms a mise en scène which, I make bold to say, would have scandalised neither Keats nor Spenser.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.