Example sentences for: francs

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

  • Le Figaro of Paris led its front page Wednesday with an estimate that the storm will cost the French economy between 60 billion and 70 billion French francs, about 3 percent of the state budget.

  • Once all European prices are quoted in euros, it will be obvious to consumers when a German company is charging more than its French competitor or vice versa--whereas it wouldn't be if the prices were quoted in francs and marks and had to be converted at the going exchange rate.

  • But, set to those notes, it's a fine example of the transformational properties of music--the perfect opening for Maschwitz's rueful accumulation of sophisticated memory-joggers--"wild strawberries only seven francs a kilo," "the waiters whistling as the last bar closes," and so on.

  • In Naples, there is a sporting goods store called Snoopy's Dribbling , while just off the Grand Place in Brussels you can find a boutique called Big Nuts , where a sign in the window intriguingly offers, “Sweat, 690 francs.”

  • 2 francs to the dollar, a drop of 40 percent.


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