Example sentences for: flâneur

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

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • Certainly it’s a town for that most Parisian of creatures, the flâneur, or stroller, wandering at leisure through narrow back streets, paying due homage to the monuments of Québec City’s past triumphs and tribulations, but even more alert to the colors and smells of the living present.


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