Example sentences for: faire

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

  • America in Black and White will nourish such fears through its own embrace of laissez faire optimism.

  • Satisfy these cravings at Laissez Faire Books, "The World's Largest Selection of Books on Liberty."

  • Yet Hong Kong's champions of laissez faire and low government spending have been curiously silent in response to the new signals coming from the top.

  • Her mother, née Capet, was a grande dame, full of savoir faire and joie de vivre, who later became a clairvoyant and spent her time in séances and collecting naïf gouaches and objets d'art.

  • I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.


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