starter BrE **
appetiser BrE , also: app informal
appetizer AmE * , also: app informal
hors d'oeuvre loan-word

For starters, a lot is going right in the economy.

For starters, most of the workers are in their early 20s.

They will also return 20 of 22 starters from 1997.

A. For starters, understand where both of you are in the relationship.

We put the starters back in and got down again.

All of their starters were with the team in 1990.

The line will be new, but six starters return on defense.

Only 11 of the 28 starters were running at the end.

We think we'd have enough starters to leave him where he is.

They would have to be told how she was, for starters.

Since we got him, he was one of our starters, and David is not 100 percent.

For starters, most schools have their students only six or seven hours a day.

So they would have two young starters on the right side of the line.

If he's ready to go, we have to think about him as one of our starters.

Has anyone ever thought about the other 21 starters on the team who play?

And at the end of the game, their starters were still playing.

Its five starters played from 33 to 39 of the 40 minutes.

For starters, the large size of the president's board is a problem.

It is a start for the starters, not much more.

The starters were long gone by the time this one was over.

"Maybe next week we'll start to play the starters a little longer."

And four of Chicago's five starters are at least 31 years old.

Like, for starters, whether she was doing the right thing.

It'd be certain things you would have as starters and then.

They have 10 starters on this team and maybe more.

This is one for drinking with fish or as an appetiser.

Which, you feel, would not be a bad appetiser for the real meat to follow.

Guacamole: an appetiser to make your mouth - and eyes - water.

She was still braiding happy thoughts when the appetiser arrived.

The menu changes with the seasons, but the mixed appetiser platter is always a good choice.

"I like to have an appetiser before I eat.

But if he knew what I had done he would roast my eyes on a fire and serve them to me as an appetiser."

The aperitivo opens a meal, and it is similar to an appetiser.

But we leave with an unsatisfied feeling in our stomachs as if we have only just had the appetiser.

This salad is often consumed as an appetiser with rakia.

Not as nourishing as Judi, but an excellent appetiser for what was to come.

'To the Indians, death was a very simple thing, for life was just an appetiser.

Smoked cod roe can be turned into the tasty Greek appetiser, taramasalata.

Verhackert is served cold with bread as an appetiser.

Try the appetiser selection of fried goodies.

Solomentsev nervously threw back the new shot of vodka and ate another appetiser.

Enso up in Railway Field had been an appetiser: this one was a holocaust.

Most of the set menus start with a soup or an appetiser plater called "Iftariye".

White table cloth and fine china meals complete with appetiser, dessert, and wine might set you back $35.

Tom describes being a "studio audience entertainer" as being "like the appetiser for the main meal".

The tasting menu comprises an appetiser, four courses, then a cheese selection and two desserts (€78).

Even worse, at dinner that evening our waiter served a fellow diner his soup while he was eating his appetiser.

More recently, it has been made using thinned-out yogurt, as it is used as summer appetiser in hot part of India.

He claims that 'it is an appetiser', but we would be wrong to think that this is merely cosmetic.

Another popular appetiser commonly eaten is unripe mango dressed with soy sauce and chili flakes.

Either appetizer was large enough for a party of four.

In the case of at least one appetizer special, this is a great thing.

Instead, the decision was made to share five or six appetizers.

Its food, especially the appetizers, is reason enough for a visit.

Blue should have been an appetizer, not a main course.

Both of these worked best, if at all, as appetizers.

There's nothing special about most of the appetizers, except for two.

Among the appetizers, it would be hard to single out a favorite.

They are the right size for two to share as an appetizer.

Like most of the appetizers, it is big enough to share.

Certain appetizers also did not live up to their promise.

Even better, you can choose to make your appetizers the night before the party.

Both arguments provide food for thought, if only as appetizers.

Sharing is the way to go here, especially with the appetizers.

Having pasta as an appetizer is a better way to go.

The course after the appetizer is always a light soup.

One night we waited more than an hour for appetizers.

At least he had one appetizer to present to the Hunters.

With an appetizer or soup, half is more than enough.

I have just one small complaint on the appetizer front.

Robert asked her if she'd like to split an appetizer.

It can be served as an appetizer or a main course.

If you order this appetizer at a restaurant, be sure to share.

It was an appetizer for what happened in the ninth.

Consider one appetizer that has not changed (most have) with the season.