Example sentences for: gourmet

How can you use “gourmet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If you go inland, you can still take the celebrated four-day boat trip between Wuhan and Chongqing through the Yangzi (Yangtze) River gorges (before they are swallowed up by a massive dam project to be completed after 2009), and from there fly to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou for sightseeing, shopping, and gourmet dining.

  • When the man in the street or his female counterpart says all-mond ( almond ), beero ( bureau ), callm ( calm ), carmel ( caramel ), cooten ( couldn't ), deffly ( definitely ), ditten ( didn't ), ek cetera ( et cetera ), gore-may ( gourmet ), prolly ( probably ), putt-ing ( putting ), tair-iss ( terrorist ), tore-iss ( tourist ), or commits other and worse sins against good English and grammar, the listener realizes that the vernacular—a dialect, Low English—is being spoken and prolly thinks no more about it.

  • The tiny burg of Point Reyes Station across the little bridge on Petaluma Road contains some good restaurants and an excellent spot for gourmet take-out, Tomales Bay Foods on Fourth Street.

  • In a transformation no less dramatic than the Harbourfront, the hippy slum of the 1960s has been refurbished into a chic neighborhood of fashionable boutiques, art galleries, sidewalk cafés, gourmet restaurants, and colorfully repainted old houses.

  • The Hollywood Bowl, the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and jazz and pops concerts by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, fills each performance with Angelenos toting gourmet picnic baskets and fine wine.


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