Example sentences for: dreyfus

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

  • They liken the "Pollard Affair" to the Dreyfus Affair, and assert that Pollard was sentenced to life because he is Jewish.

  • See the Henry Moore piece in Killian Court, east of the Rogers Building and Calder’s The Big Sail outside the Dreyfus Building.

  • Other notable buildings include: Alvar Aalto’s Baker House, I. M Pei’s Weisner Building, Green, Dreyfus and Landau Buildings, and Eduardo Catalano’s Stratton Student Center.

  • French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.

  • It appeared in 1886, eight years before Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French Army, was arrested on what proved to be trumped-up charges of spying for the Germans.


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