Example sentences for: coq

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

  • 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.

  • What a kick to see Pacino, 25 years later, in the Clemenza role, demonstrating for "Donnie" how to make coq au vin . This time, though, the scene has an undercurrent of shame.

  • vivre comme un coq en pâté, Lit. to live like a cockerel in pastry: to be in clover

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

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


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