How to Use petit four in a Sentence
petit four
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Desserts range from homemade rhubarb and apple pie and petit fours for adults and homemade brownies for kids.
—Donald Liebenson, Lake County News-Sun, 14 Dec. 2017
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And with petit fours and a pink fan by her side, Grimes certainly looked ready for any spectral function.
—Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
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Just as the petit fours were being served, the designer—wearing his trademark leather jacket—popped in to say hello.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 14 May 2019
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Jessica Cole, always had the urge to bring people together over petit fours and saucers.
—Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2018
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At Madcap the price is $7 for four bite-sized cubes that look like petit fours layered with almond cake, the liver mousse, hibiscus gelee and a flower garnish.
—Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
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Mocha-chocolate petit fours, each topped with a fresh raspberry, were among the pastry offerings.
—Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
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Dessert was strawberry sable with lemon verbena cream followed by a selection of assorted fresh fruits, then coffee and petit fours.
—Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 June 2019
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Either way, dinner at Schwarzwaldstube is an epic affair of memorable course after memorable course, but the finale might just, well, take the cake: Instead of one or two petit fours after dessert, the server wheels in an entire cart of them.
—Laura Giannatempo, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2018
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Fans of the sweet little Japanese fictional character will be able to satisfy their sweet tooth with giant Hello Kitty cookies, 3-piece boxed cookie sets, 5-piece macaron box sets and 4-piece petit fours box sets.
—Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 18 Apr. 2018
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One of her majesty’s diplomats imparted this nugget of patrician contempt to me in October 2018 at a black-tie fundraiser in Washington, sometime between the petits fours and Boris Johnson’s after-dinner routine.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 10 July 2019
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Pastry chef Valerie Gordon is mostly known for her delicate petits fours and fine chocolates, so her latest obsession might seem a little incommensurate at first: live fire grilling.
—latimes.com, 7 July 2018
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Fresh grapes and assorted fruit, an outstanding assortment of cheeses, jambalaya, pastries and petit fours and bread pudding with assorted sauces including caramel whiskey cream, bananas Foster, dark chocolate rum and white chocolate.
—Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 6 May 2018
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Dinner was a chic Italianate affair: a symphony of glistening Richard Ginori porcelain and colorful Venetian glass goblets, with a menu of crab and langoustine cocktail followed by individual (and very cosy) shepherd’s pie and petit fours.
—Vogue, 19 Nov. 2018
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