Example sentences for: coq

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

  • The 19th-century French chemist Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran managed to name Gallium after himself (because, of course, Coq in Latin is Gallus !).

  • For entrée she has the spécialité de la maison, coq au vin with pommes frites and aubergines and he has filet mignon aux fines herbes with courgettes and purée de tomate.

  • John Galliano won at $25,000 with a black cotton-satin hourglass corset covered with jeweled sprays and stars and faintly suggesting Jane Russell; followed at a great distance by a $2,000 Yoshibi Ishinuma bikini made entirely of swooping black coq feathers; and a Robert Beaulieu bikini made entirely of pale mink, available at a modest $750.

  • That is, I read a lot of magazines, pore over a couple of newspapers every day, and watch a good deal of television--particularly Ready, Set, Cook on the TV Food Network, which, admittedly, doesn't help me stay abreast of world affairs, but I now know how to make a hell of a coq au vin!

  • (French coq and Latin gallus both mean the same thing: rooster.)


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