Example sentences for: de

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

  • None other than the emperor Napoleon III himself snatched up the glorious Souvenir de Mortefontaine for 3,000 francs and hid it away in the palace at Fountainebleau, where he could admire in private the great horizontal sweep of the central tree, and the standing woman's posture echoed in another, barer tree.

  • In the final struggle for Québec, the courageous French military commander, Marquis de Montcalm, led outnumbered troops to a victory at Ticonderoga.

  • In 1966, only two years after the publication of the book, General de Gaulle, then president of France, established a High Committee for the Defence and the Expansion of the French Language.

  • In the Newsweek excerpt of Dutch , there are many similar tours de force , some imaginatively construed as celebrity question-and-answer interviews (Morris with Nancy), others set inside some character's head.

  • Though he can usually be counted on for a bit of patter from Gilbert and Sullivan, most of which he knows by heart, he told me he felt it had been too long since he reread Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in the classic translation by Brian Hooker.


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