Example sentences for: bertrand

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

  • Well aware of the island’s burgeoning wealth and repository of supplies, the French pirate Bertrand de Montluc sailed into Funchal harbor with his 11-galleon armada and 1,300 men.

  • Similarly for Voltaire (not funny), Thomas Fuller (The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir--clever but not funny), and Bertrand Russell (There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge--wise but not funny), and Sigmund Freud (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar--a straight line funny only to us).

  • While applauding co-pilot Brian Jones for overachieving, the media concluded in retrospect that the pilot, Bertrand Piccard, had been destined for greatness, since his grandfather was the first man to reach the stratosphere (in a balloon in 1931) and his father had attained the oceans' lowest depth (35,000 feet).

  • Clinton's answers in the Flytrap scandal remind Chatterbox of nothing so much as an old routine by the British comedy group Beyond the Fringe, parodying Bertrand Russell's televised reminiscences.

  • De facto leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has proven nearly as authoritarian as former dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier.


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