Example sentences for: cheval

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

  • Its speakers live in a linguistically complex society, a mosaic of languages from around the world in Montreal, dominated everywhere by speakers of standard French and of Joual (from cheval ), the 17th-century Norman and Poitou dialect that is the folk speech of the province.

  • reméde de cheval, Lit. horse remedy: kill or cure

  • On some beasts, however, the five languages can more or less agree: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth (F) À cheval donné on ne regarde pax aux dents : (G) Einem geschenkten Gaul sieht man nicht in's Maul; (R) \?\ (S) A caballo regalado, no se le mira el diente .

  • Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.


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