Example sentences for: cœur

How can you use “cœur” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • French, being a Latin-derived language, is also very rich in digraphs, which are often still retained today in France, but are dying out in Quebec: cœur and œuvre are common examples.

  • The funicular (it takes métro and bus tickets) climbs to the terrace in front of the Byzantine-style basilica of Sacré-Cœur.

  • Just a few steps west of Sacré-Cœur is St-Pierre-de-Montmartre, one of the city’s oldest churches.

  • The Sacré-Cœur’s conspicuous whiteness comes from the local Château-Landon limestone, which bleaches on contact with carbon dioxide in the air and hardens with age.

  • The Sacré-Cœur’s architect, Paul Abadie, wanted to demolish St-Pierre, but he was overruled, and it was restored “as a riposte to the Sacré-Cœur.”


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