Example sentences for: forte

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

  • Down a narrow alleyway, past Edwardian-style beach huts used by local fishermen for storage and napping in, is the 17th-century Forte de São Tiago (St.

  • As for the English word forte `strength,' it is not the feminine form of the French adjective fort `strong' but an English “feminization” of the French noun fort `strength.

  • Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • The Times has Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, whose forte is Southern atmosphere, on the tornado case.

  • The town’s strategic role as a border-crossing is reflected in its name (Chaves means “Keys”) and by its two 17th-century fortresses (the Forte de São Francisco has been converted into a superior hotel).


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