How to Use à la mode in a Sentence

à la mode

adjective
  • Guests can make an ice cream sundae, pie a la mode or a root beer float.
    — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 3 July 2018
  • Choose pumpkin cheesecake or apple pie a la mode for dessert.
    — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Dessert choices will be pumpkin pie, pecan pie and brownie a la mode.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The menu features Dover sole entree and apple tart a la mode.
    — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
  • For dessert, give strong consideration to the three-berry pie a la mode.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Having the hand pies a la mode would benefit the higher alcohol content of the port.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Grab a slice of pie, then add the a la mode at the connecting Ample Hills Creamery.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • Goetz is far too attached to the symbol to ever consider a redesign, however a la mode the plus sign might get.
    — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 27 Feb. 2020
  • Offerings include mango and spicy tuna rolls, seared salmon, crispy chicken and sauteed shrimp, plus a chocolate lava cake a la mode.
    — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Following the second panel, guests tucked in to warm cookie pie a la mode before boarding golf carts back to the valet, where there was a lengthy wait for cars.
    — Jean Bentley, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2018
  • Served a la mode, fresh strawberry slices were the proverbial cherry on top of a meal at a restaurant that is sure to fuel Louisvillians for many more years to come.
    — Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 23 May 2018
  • The farm will also be hosting an Apple Festival with apple crisp a la mode, apple pie, candy apples and doughnuts, as well as vendors, music, hayrides and face painting.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Guests will sit at a mix of round and rectangular tables draped in alternating yellow and green tablecloths in tribute to Australia’s national colors and dine on sunchoke ravioli, Dover sole and apple tart a la mode.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019

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