Example sentences for: breton

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

  • At Cape Smokey, so called for the fogs that shroud it in winter and a few unlucky summer days, take the ski-lift that operates in summer for the view up and down the coast and over to the Cape Breton Highlands.

  • The political movements that support English as an official language are not threatened by Breton, Basque, or Boontling (a moribund argot spoken in a town in Northern California).

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.

  • Recognized by the Bloomsbury set, Spencer's early work--heavily influenced by Gauguin's neoprimitive paintings of Christs and angels in Breton costumes--was included in one of the critic Roger Fry's influential group exhibitions, which introduced British audiences to Cézanne and Picasso.

  • In fact, Breton, Basque, and Portuguese fishermen had been here long before him but kept to themselves the secret of the coastal waters’ teeming cod fisheries.


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