Sentence examples for verts are from inspiring English sources

A dollop of cream enriches the sauce; sautéed potatoes and steamed haricots verts are good accompaniments.

Main courses include a fine hanger steak in a dense red wine sauce, while side dishes like creamy leek-and-potato gratin and garlicky haricots verts are excellent.

Cold, crisp haricots verts are tossed with julienne strips of beet, carrot and parsnip in a white balsamic vinaigrette and piled atop Boston lettuce.

One cook browns whole chickens for jus, haricots verts are boiling in pots large enough to fit a small child, bundles of parsley are reduced to piles of green dust in no time flat.

A butter lettuce salad, topped with a few nicely cooked haricots verts, was similarly dressed with a mustardy vinaigrette.

And there weren't enough greens: a serving of a dozen haricots verts is more garnish than vegetable.

Discovering in a diner the lemon-grilled free-range chicken (moist and tender) in ancho chili glaze, with roasted fingerling potatoes and haricots verts, is a kick.

The thick, juicy veal chop and grilled tuna set over pesto mashed potatoes and haricots verts were other good non-beef selections.

A salad of perfect little lettuces, pickled beets, feta and crunchy haricots verts was also a winner (although candied pecans stood in for the hazelnuts promised on the menu, a detail that neither kitchen nor server felt compelled to explain).

A grilled Homestead pork chop, partnered with sausage-and-focaccia stuffing and crisp haricots verts, was moist enough to stand on its own — but even better when dredged through a rosemary-tinged port-wine reduction.

That, along with an order of polpo con patate e fagiolini (tender octopus bites, with well-browned potato chunks and haricots verts), was the start of a memorable evening.