Example sentences for: calais

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

  • The building itself was designed by Le Corbusier; the Rodin sculptures in the courtyard — the Gate of Hell, the Thinker, and the magnificent Burghers of Calais — are authentic castings from the original molds.

  • The mass-circulation Sun , now reportedly dumping its famous Page-3 bare-breasted pinups at the request of Rupert Murdoch's new Chinese wife, used the small French farmers' protest at Calais as the excuse for an attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair for his pro-Europeanism.

  • The conservative Daily Telegraph said in an editorial: "If French farmers really think they can force British consumers to buy their produce by blockading Calais, they had better prepare for a long and unprofitable winter on the quayside.

  • We insatiable travelers have seen similar scenes enacted many times around the watering holes of the world, from Calais to the fleshpots of Douala, from Quebec to the silver strands of the Côte d'Ivoire.

  • The Daily Mail 's front-page headline, above a picture of French farmers halting British trucks with burning barricades at the Channel port of Calais, was "Merde ! What a flaming cheek," and inside in an editorial it said, "A million scientists proclaiming that beef from excrement-fed cattle is safe will only reinforce the commonsense view that animals fed in such a disgusting way cannot possibly be healthy."


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