Example sentences for: breton

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

  • 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).

  • Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.

  • He was drummed out by André Breton after two years--nearly all members were expelled sooner or later--but Breton eventually repented, calling him a "man of prodigies" and perhaps the truest surrealist of all.

  • In your letter, you mentioned Navajo and Breton (the Celtic language of Brittany); coincidentally, this morning I got a letter from a colleague who has published an extensive dictionary of Hopi and is working with educators to help Hopi children learn their ancestral language.

  • (The Celtic languages are an especially relevant case--not only is there renewed interest in Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, but there are revival movements for the extinct Manx and Cornish.


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