cocktail
Example Sentences
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“Who said that wakes and funerals are the cocktail parties of the old?” one character asks.
At Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn, New York, where I live now, concessions include cocktails, mocktails, specialty coffee drinks and full meals.
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A little retro, fancy but never fussy, shrimp cocktail is festive food guests go ga-ga for.
Only a fool would meddle with the classic cocktail sauce recipe.
My family has added things like lobster mac and cheese, crab cakes, and shrimp cocktail to our menu over the years, none of which are exactly “Italian.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.