Sentence examples for piste a from inspiring English sources

Like many keen skiers, I have skied off piste a fair bit over the years, with skilled friends and almost always, of course, with a guide.

The thin snow layer prevented me from discovering just how much of its 420m of piste a skier could cover in a day but it was possible to get some idea.

This is a physically confined sport in which action is restricted to the piste: a long narrow mat that, to the naked eye, looks about the length of a cricket pitch.

To ease the journey between the road and the door, and the door and the piste, a hi-tech private funicular does the heavy lifting – though during my visit it happens to be broken and in need of a correspondingly hi-tech replacement part.

Tam, meanwhile, goes completely off piste with a homemade "five-spice mix" of ground ginger, celery powder, salt, five-spice and chicken stock powder, which, according to my culinarily sophisticated boyfriend "makes it taste like Pot Noodle".

It would also "piste" off an awful lot of people.

He was asked whether the route taken by Mr Schumacher was a "de facto piste" – an unofficial trail often taken by skiers and tolerated by the managers of the Meribel resort.

David Cameron now going off piste to have an ad-lib dig at Lord Ashcroft's book - he's clearly feeling confident A spokesperson for the Prime Minister previously told The Independent: "It's a no comment from us.

apreslounge.co.uk A collection of themed cocktail bars that now has a new Off Piste Lounge, a custom-built chalet with a big screen for playing retro ski games on a PlayStation 1, and a resident 7ft polar bear.

Paul and Wanda and I gave the Lech pistes a cursory look.

It has 40km of pistes, a snowpark and cross-country trails.