Example sentences for: duc

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

  • The paintings include Jan Van Eyck’s 14th-century miniatures for the Book of Hours of the Duc de Berry, Pontormo’s St. Michael, and a particularly handsome Portrait of a Man by Sicilian master Antonello da Messina.

  • The present state of the cathedral owes much to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who from 1845 to 1863 painstakingly restored it following the ravages of the 18th century, caused more by pre-Revolutionary meddlers than by revolutionaries who stripped it of religious symbols.

  • In 1066, Duc Guillaume of Normandy crossed the English Channel in a successful military campaign and became William the Con­queror.

  • Similarly, architect Viollet-le-Duc often went overboard restoring some of the great Gothic cathedrals and medieval châteaux in ways their original creators had never imagined.


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