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Example sentences for: austerlitz
How can you use “austerlitz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
With its four glass towers in the shape of open books, the new national library, Bibliothèque François Mitterand, is the flagship building of the redeveloped Tolbiac district east of the Gare d’Austerlitz.
Its replacement, the Vendôme column, commemorates in bronze relief the victories of Napoléon, cast from 1,250 Austrian cannons captured at Austerlitz and topped by a statue of the emperor.
The sentence Napoleon badly/ignominiously defeated the Austrians and Russians is called wrong on the grounds that badly and ignominiously (like heavily, thoroughly, utterly) can be used only with a passive verb; but we can say Napoleon defeated the Austrians and Russians badly or ignominiously at Austerlitz without violating natural English idiom.