Example sentences for: enfant

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

  • Then some of the following examples given in the dictionary show that in some contexts the word does not mean `child' at all: c'est un bon enfant `he is a good fellow'; l'enfant prodigue `the prodigal son.

  • !) to "swinging" London, which has recaptured its 1960s hipness: Oasis and Blur are much admired; so is fashion enfant terrible Alexander McQueen.

  • Will became opinion journalism's enfant terrible , slashing the dearest liberal icons and pushing a hard-right foreign policy.

  • An article discovers a new literary enfant terrible : Muammar Qaddafi.

  • Her father was a parvenu who used to be a bon vivant and the enfant terrible of his clique but became a laissez-faire entrepreneur in the entrepôt business and then accepted a post as a chargé d'affaires, which entitled him to a UN laissez-passer, (working to improve detente, and rapprochement with the ancien régime), though he remained a bit of a roué, having an affaire with the au pair.


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