Example sentences for: claire

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

  • Across the river are the Convento de Santa Clara-a-Velha (Old St. Claire Convent, long under extensive restoration aimed at rescuing it from the river), where the lifeless Inês de Castro was crowned (see page 45), and the newer, uphill Convento de Santa Clara-a-Nova (New Convent), where the silver tomb of Isabel, the sainted queen of Dom Dinis, is located.

  • Also, Vanity Fair hypes its own: A long excerpt from a biography of Claire Booth Luce focuses on her stint as VF 's managing editor.

  • The current system, instituted in the 1930s, distorts the market, discriminates against the dairy farmers of the Upper Midwest by providing higher prices (called "distance differentials") to farmers who live far from Eau Claire, Wis., (the city from which these "distance differentials" are calculated) and puts Wisconsin producers at an artificial competitive disadvantage.

  • -- Claire Wynters

  • At one point, he even planned to name a character in his novel Deception --a hideous, dowdy actress and an "ever-spouting fountain of tears"--Claire.


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