Example sentences for: coeur

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

  • Others have entered English through French ( Bois Brûlé, Coeur d'Alêne, Gros Ventre, Huron, Loucheux, Nez Percé, Pend d'Oreille ) and Spanish (Guapo, Laguna, Manso, Orejón, Seminole, Tonto) .

  • Three years later, however, Steunenberg approved the deployment of black troops and the use of preventive detention "bull pens" to squelch labor unrest in the Coeur d'Alenes mining camps.

  • Twenty-five years ago, the French scholar René Etiemble launched his now classic Parlez-vous franglais ? It was the cri de coeur of a single-minded patriot beset by the idea that the purity of his mother tongue was being corrupted by the Anglo-maniac leanings of his countrymen.

  • Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) positively glows for the film, calling it a "mordantly hilarious cri de coeur ." But most critics aren't so enchanted: Although "there are lots of punchy lines," the "one-joke movie doesn't have all that much to say" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). (Click for David Edelstein's review in Slate , and here to find out more about Brooks.)

  • It was her final cri de coeur.


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