a la mode

Example Sentences

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It’s just the dish to celebrate Mel Brooks’s legacy: Mud pie, à la mode.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2023

In fact, Imprint’s Mind Body Baby: Astrology is part of a very à la mode four-book series that purports to boil down the New Age for ages 0 and up.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2020

“He would say they had ‘class à la mode.’

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2020

The backdrop is a cubist cityscape; their hair is cropped in the manner of Parisian garçons; and their red lips and shaded eyes are thoroughly à la mode.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2018

There, now; that's something that I can quite recommend; it's decidedly à la mode, worn by all the duchesses, countesses, baronesses, and lady mayoresses, at all the balls, routs, conversaziones, and concerts given this season!

From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.