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

It's one of the reasons I so love "mise en place."

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2023

We had a whole bunch of ideas, like a five- or six-page document of different ideas, and a mise en place race was one of them.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 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

So might have thought Walter Wade, who, after long absence from this his native shire, now, gazing on its wood-embowered hills and valleys recognised the mise en scène of his boyhood’s home!

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne