Example sentences for: enfants

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

  • In 1988, postmodernist Jean-François Lyotard published Le Postmoderne expliqué aux enfants ( Postmodernism Explained to Children ), and the book became a must-read for graduate students everywhere.

  • One does not sing, “Allons, les enfants de la patrie.

  • Nor does enfants always mean `children,' exactly.

  • If a young economist should show even a simulacrum of old-fashioned star quality, he is likely to be deluged with offers, but for the most part the race for academic prestige has become a game of musical chairs in which everyone still wants the same old enfants terribles , and there are not enough of them to go around.

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.


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