Example sentences for: jour

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

  • The abbreviated boeuf à la mode --no geography necessary for this national plat du jour --is, of course, and as correctly described in Amelia Simmons's American Cookery, a round of Beef cooked with spices and vegetables.

  • The NYT reports that in his mea culpa du jour, Clinton also cited Bosnia as another example on his watch where the reaction to ethnic killing was too slow.

  • The term has so rapidly evolved from restricted jargon into mainstream patois--it is hardly more "technical" now than the words du jour after soup on a truck-stop menu--that A Prairie Home Companion cannot only use it safely, but can even give it a knowing, ironic twist.

  • She has pâté for hors d'oeuvre, while he has the soupe du jour with croûtons.

  • The new appendages might grow faster than their predecessors, and so eclipse them as the darling du jour of Wall Street.


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