Sentence examples for eclair from inspiring English sources

Her car stereo has "Eclair" tapes and "Jenny" tapes; her wardrobe has "PVC pants at one end and nice Marks & Spencer's woollen trousers at the other, with a grey area in the middle".

When she reappeared, she asked him not to tell his parents what happened, & he blackmailed her out of an eclair.

Then one day, dining with his supervisor, Schnabel, F. is tempted to eat an eclair.

We were served tea, a sandwich and an eclair by a Junior League girl at the Flower Show last week.

— Patrick Farrell Zester Daily: Dry, dribbly and monstrous, the eclair has been deservedly eclipsed.

White-haired and smartly dressed in a purple cardigan and black trousers, she has agreed to come round for a cup of tea and an eclair, but is scathing about the health secretary's suggestions that people should live with their elderly relatives to combat loneliness.

Playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell grimaces as she remembers performing at the Edinburgh fringe in her teens: "We were those really horrific kids on the Royal Mile who sing songs and wear costumes and do jazz hands and aggressively flyer you".

The play is incorporating these feelings, though Eclair-Powell is adamant that it should ultimately be a "celebration of womanhood".

"We decided we wanted to repeat that model and do it about the experience of identifying as a woman, which was much harder, bigger, more complex," Eclair-Powell explains.

Eclair-Powell's own attempts as a performer were short-lived ("I go bright red talking in front of people on stage") and, after doing an English degree at Oxford University, she joined the young writers' group at the Royal Court.

Writing Torch has forced Eclair-Powell to confront her own views.