Sentence examples for ate hors from inspiring English sources

At least 120 passengers aboard 13 Concorde and other British Airways flights who ate hors d'oeuvres became sick from salmonellosis, an intestinal ailment caused by a bacterium called Salmonella enteritidis.

I was at a nondescript West Hollywood strip mall where smartly dressed young people who resembled Aaron Sorkin's idea of political staffers milled about with local business types and ate hors d'oeuvres served on platters by young women in white T-shirts that said "ACE".

Instead, they meet every four to six weeks, after dinner, and eat hors d'oeuvres and -- always -- desserts.

While she was serving on the COSEA commission, she organized a V.I.P. reception on the terrace of a Vatican building so that well-connected Italians and high-level prelates could drink champagne and eat hors d'oeuvres while watching a canonization mass for John Paul II and John XXIII, while hundreds of thousands of the faithful waited patiently in St. Peter's Square.

Yet last week, a few blocks up First Avenue, brokers were sipping champagne and eating hors d'oeuvres to celebrate the opening of a showroom of another limestone-and-glass condo, the Charles, now little more than a big hole in the ground near East 72nd Street.

I was at a nondescript West Hollywood strip mall where smartly dressed young people who resembled Aaron Sorkin's idea of political staffers milled about with local business types, eating hors d'oeuvres served on platters by young women in white T-shirts that said "ACE".

At this point it's 2 PM in my infinite day and I begin to drink flutes of white wine, eat hors d'oeuvres, and mingle with what the promotional pamphlet describes as a "select group of designers, key members of the press, and luminaries of the Icelandic community".

They sipped wine, ate kosher hors d'oeuvres and listened to live music in the museum's auditorium.

All I wanted to do was eat my hors d'oeuvres.

Let them go ahead and eat the hors d'oeuvres without me.

As he put it, in what became known as Kleiner's Law of Appetisers, "The time to eat the hors d'oeuvres is when they're being passed round".