Sentence examples for bit of cocktail from inspiring English sources

She also loved the great American songbook, so my head was whirling with all this music, and meanwhile I was getting jobs playing for a church choir, for my father's lessons, accompanying recitals, occasionally doing my own concerts as well as a bit of cocktail piano in a bar.

Note: "perfect" in this context is a bit of cocktail terminology referring to the vermouth mixture, and is not a value judgement regarding the flavor of a martini made this way.

She cleverly serves them upside-down in plastic glasses, so the treats can be put back in the glass between bites to catch any melt, leaving a bit of sweet cocktail to sip.

As for technical elements, I use a bit of a cocktail of software.

Its adherents include people who believe every word in the Bible is true, modernists who consider it a collection of inspiring fables, and traditionalists who cherish archaic English.One exotic bit of that ecclesiological cocktail is shrinking.

At the Vermuteria del Tano, one of Barceona's traditional (and newly chic) vermouth bars, a nice woman stared at the clams before her, then speared a tart pickle, an olive, a bit of red pepper and cocktail onions on a toothpick and handed it over.

Or maybe you accidentally spilled a bit of your sticky pink cocktail on a pair of work pants?

Wheels: more decorative than not, they add a bit of flair to a cocktail without adding much fruit.

And there was a bit of punk in with the cocktail last time, so I started thinking about how New Age travellers were kind of a reaction to punk.

They were undermined by a familiar cocktail – a bit of bad luck, set-piece concessions, barely conceivable individual errors and, to set the seal on it, a lunge towards the self-destruct button.

There was also a surfeit of cocktail frocks, lavished with sequins and coy bits of lace — some of them, as Mr. Downing noted, with the distinctive stamp of Norman Norell or Bill Blass.