Example sentences for: au

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

  • The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.

  • “But, à propos, I thought I was your raison d'être, ever since you saw me au naturel.

  • This approach is often used by “entertainers” who invoke strange names of strange people to demonstrate to an audience that they are au fait with the latest, though I am never quite sure “the latest what.”

  • avoir du monde au balcon

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.


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