Example sentences for: cour

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

  • An enormous new reception area was excavated (revealing parts of the original fort), topped by the superb glass Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei in the Cour Napoléon, which now marks the museum’s main entrance.

  • Built with remarkable speed (Danish architect Johann-Otto von Sprekelsen won the contest in 1983 and it was ready for the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989), the Grande Arche stands on an axis with the Arc de Triomphe and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre.

  • In 1986, rows of black-and-white striped stone columns were added to the main quadrangle, the Cour d’Honneur.

  • Look out on the Cour des Femmes, where husbands, lovers, wives, and mistresses were allowed one final tryst before the tumbrels came to carry off the condemned.

  • (The marble originals now grace the Cour Marly of the Louvre.)


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