Example sentences for: french

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

  • However, some of the words he indicates as listed by The Economist in 1986 are not by origin English but French ( hotel, cigarette ) or international ( telephone ). True, they may owe their worldwide currency and ubiquity to the fact that they were part of the body of English word export, but are they really words that originated in English or are they loanwords in English?

  • Wednesday's column, devoted to French food, plumbed new depths of vulgarity.

  • On the park benches, you may hear gossip not only in French and English, but Italian, Greek, Yiddish, and Russian.

  • It passed successively into the hands of the French West Indies Trading Company (to store its spices), the British, and, during their brief occupation of the city in 1775, the American generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold.

  • He had grown up in the small, poor Indiana town of French Lick, and he dubbed himself the "Hick from French Lick."


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