Example sentences for: enfant

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

  • The New Cassell's French Dictionary defines enfant in English as: “Child, infant, baby; son or daughter; descendant; citizen, native; ( Law ) offspring, issue.”

  • 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.

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

  • (He was more terrible than enfant : Will never had anything youthful about him.)

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


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