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How to use a la in a sentence

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A private bus operator has introduced a hand-held ticketing machine, which allows conductors to print tickets a la railway booking clerks.
Go and enjoy chipirones a la plancha, Gambas a la plancha and rape a la plancha, just great.
But why not get moody first in the lounge where a slinky torch singer holds court over a baby grand a la Dietrich or Garland.
After a lifetime of oily, canned sardines, sardinas a la plancha were like a divine revelation.
It can be had a la carte or as part of a combo plate combining the several foods that most of the individual vendors offer.
The a la carte option is opposed by the U.S. cable industry and would require government intercession.
Why can't there be a velvet divorce between the regions, a la Czechoslovakia?
Pre-eleven o'clock it's a restaurant serving spicy Asian delicacies a la fish and noodles that might just have been doctored with aphrodisiacs.
The ball swerves in the air a la Roberto Carlos and is in all the way, but Marcos fingertips the ball onto the right-hand post.
There's still a lot of momentum behind cord cutting and a la carte television consumption.
He is an excellent stayer and jumper with a feather weight who looks to have been laid out for this, a la Papillon and Bobbyjo.
I had a full a la carte menu to choose from, freshly cooked meats, chilled lasagne and cakes of every description.
A variety of a la carte items, which includes grilled salmon or eel or yakitori platter, are also served.
Pineapple a la mode. Place a scoop of ice cream, or yogurt in pineapple shell. Spoon pineapple pieces over ice cream and serve immediately.
Can we tame political democracy a la our Founding Fathers in 1776 or will we allow it to devour us per Ancient Greece?
I mean, under clafoutis a la fraise I do find the list of ingredients, but the actual recipe is nowhere to be found?
These ships provide saunas, indoor swimming, Jacuzzis, delectable Scandinavian buffets, and a la carte restaurants featuring steaks and seafood.
The No.9 scythed through a number of tackles before deftly hand-passing to the net, a la Angela Downey of old.
Fudgy casserole a la mode. Spoon into individual dishes and serve warm with ice cream.
At the next, he drained a 40-foot curling putt to go one over par, and raised his arms to the heavens, a la Faldo.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If you want the steak a la espanola, it should be fried instead of broiled, and when well done each piece surmounted by a mojo.
In some passages it seems like actual Shakerism, but the prevailing sense is that of intensified conjugality, a la Swedenborg.
They had ravioli a la Tuscany, and after that some very rare fruit cake that had come only the week before from sunny Italy.
In these days of prudery, almost all women of rank appear 'frappe a la glace', like a bottle of champagne.
The duke, however, wore about him a sachet a la violette, and I am sure that the one my wife has came from him.
Groupama was presented with this opportunity at the Tour de France a la Voile awards ceremony in Marseille.
Chopin's bolero, Op. 19, may be described as a bolero a la polonaise.
So for between just EUR10 and EUR29 you can get a lampshade dress a la Lady GaGa or give Cheryl Cole a run for her money.
Across the table d'hote and a la carte menus we had to wade through ten starters and twenty-six main courses.
Deleguer des taches, que ce soit au travail ou a la maison, est difficile pour de nombreux dirigeants.
Others include poulet a la Provencale, boeuf et frites, the pan-fried camembert salad and quiche of the day.
Friquet, who did not expect to be let off so cheaply, bounded off like a gazelle up the Quai a la Rue Dauphine, and disappeared.
Natif dans un douar dans la province de Taroudant, l'artiste a consacre sa vie et sa carriere a la musique.
Becky, while she was finishing her interrupted dejeuner a la fourchette.
His unimposing physique implies the role of underdog, so he comically represents himself as menacing by ripping off his shirt, a la Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestler.
Rabourdin wore habitually a blue surcoat, a white cravat, a waistcoat crossed a la Robespierre, black trousers without straps, gray silk stockings and low shoes.
Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame.
The restaurant will feature pastas and wood-fired pizzas with a '20s and '30s art deco and old time cops-and-robbers theme a la Eliot Ness, Al Capone and Baby Face Nelson.
I went for a more standard dish of daube a la joue de boeuf, a slow-cooked beef dish in a red wine, olive and onion sauce, served with a caramelised parsnip puree.
He was dressed in the garb of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted a la gineta upon a mule.
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