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How to use carte in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Carte means a bill of fare; a menu. Example: “Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).”

Examples of carte by meaning

nounA carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).

  • Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.2013, C. Boyce, P. Finnerty, A. Millim, Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle

nounA playing card.

  • He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William...

More sentences with carte

  • Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).From the entry absolute superlative
  • The restaurant had a huge à la carte menu and four specials that day.From the entry à la carte
  • Trump and MAGA world interpret this, and not without cause, as giving them carte blanche.2025 March 20, Peter Wehner, “Trump’s Appetite for Revenge Is Insatiable”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025. From the entry carte blanche
  • Four or five types of a la carte tacos and tapas, like the shrimp doughnut, are planned.2019 February 1, Meaghan Habuda, “Asian fusion lounge Caracara and its kid sister, Taco Baby, coming to Dunedin”, in Creative Loafing…. From the entry crabocado
  • Whitehouse offers à la carte and market-fresh dégustation menus, both matched with local wines.2010, Food Arts, page 19, column 2. From the entry dégustation menu
  • Even though a la carte prices aren't outrageous, we recommend the three-course pretheater menu.2006, Donald Olson, Frommer's London from $95 a Day, 10th Edition, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry pretheater
  • So you can buy a la carte programming, or you can buy the whole schmear.1994, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Field Hearing: Defense Conversion: Hearing..., page 21. From the entry schmear
  • The a la carte menu offered the rest of the week features light and informal foods.1994, Christina Tree, Best Places to Stay in New England, page 299. From the entry concasse
  • On the a la carte menu are braised pork shank with pineapple-soy sauce, humba and several pansit-based dishes.2020 November 6, Pamela Silvestri, “Taste the Filipino flavor rainbow — right here on S.I.”, in Staten Island Advance, Staten Island…. From the entry humba
  • Included in the book is a faded, fullstanding carte de viste photograph of Collis as sergeant major of the 18th Pa.2009, Heritage Auctions, “Heritage Civil War Auction #6024 - Page 78”, in Inc.. From the entry fullstanding
  • You look at a menu and there it all is, just as you’d find à la carte in Beaune or Bordeaux.1985 September, David Watmough, “Vancouver Summer Pudding”, in David Watmough, editor, Vancouver Fiction, Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press…. From the entry greasey spoon
  • Instead, Marvel regularly uploads digital editions of older comics to its online store for iPad fankids to browse and buy a la carte.2010, J.D. Biersdorfer, iBooks and ePeriodicals on the iPad: The Mini Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry fankid
  • So, while the sycophantic liberal media calls any and all opposition to Obama racist, they give Obama carte blanche to exploit his race whenever it serves his purpose.2010 October 12, Lloyd Marcus, “So much for the 'post-racial' president”, in The Guardian. From the entry serve
  • If public safety requires a police force that is given carte blanche to brutalize its citizens, the government should have to state so on the record and defend its reasoning.2020 June 23, Tahir Duckett, “The Hidden Constitutional Costs of the Carceral System”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23…. From the entry lawful but awful
  • We have given technology carte blanche, much in the way Congress has always, in the past, given automatic approval to defense budgets, resulting in the most gigantic graft in history.1970, Philip Slater, The Pursuit Of Loneliness, Boston: Beacon Press, page 128. From the entry carte blanche

Meaning of carte

  1. noun A bill of fare; a menu.
  2. noun A visiting card.
  3. noun A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).

Full definition of carte

Questions about carte in a sentence

How do you use carte in a sentence?
Carte is used as a noun. For example: “Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).”
What is a short sentence with carte?
“Am citit o carte tare proastă. (I read a very bad book).”
What does carte mean?
Carte means a bill of fare; a menu.

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