Example sentences for: degas

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

  • Back in Paris, Degas showed no interest in pushing such plein-air experiments further--he was no Atget in the making.

  • The exhibition of Degas' photographs, some of which have never before been seen in public, raises two questions.

  • The glass negatives were too overexposed to print, so Degas had them treated with chemicals to produce an orange and yellow effect like stained glass, images for a secular chapel.

  • The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to "de Gas" to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.

  • But Japan represented something new for van Gogh, not the jaggedly cropped edges and off-kilter points of view that attracted Degas and Cassatt but rather an imaginary world of nature worship; available women; and flat, shadowless color.


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