pis aller

Example sentences from the Web for pis aller

• All this, of course, was but making the best of a pis-aller.

  Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) |Wiliam Cabell Bruce

• The whole is an extravagant riot of second bests, a pandemonium of pis-aller.

  What's Wrong With The World |G.K. Chesterton

• The hospitable vicar had suggested dinner—lunch as a pis-aller.

  The Gay Adventure |Richard Bird

• As a pis-aller, this was accepted; and Ries remained at Arnsberg about nine months, after which he returned home.

  The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3) |Alexander Wheelock Thayer