Example sentences for: franglais

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

  • The book became enormously popular, and the term Franglais entered the world's dictionaries.

  • Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”

  • *On the other hand, this is not Franglais, either: according to Petit Robert it has been standard French since 1782.

  • Franglais includes such classics as hot-dog steamé all dressed , and a rock music review which declared that a group's appeal was to male white trash de vieille souche.

  • I was amused and bemused by Martyn Ecott's The Franglais Blues [XX, 3].


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