Words similar to french

Example sentences for: french

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

An editorial in the liberal French daily Libération Thursday agreed, pointing out that the "the outcome in seismic catastrophes has less to do with poverty than with negligence."
Today, English, far from an easy language to master, has probably replaced French as the most universally used lingua franca.
4. "Protesting tire-maker Michelin's plan to cut 7,500 jobs from its workforce, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told reporters, 'We didn't renounce the dictatorship of the proletariat just to replace it with the dictatorship of the shareholders.
The lost metaphor in canard is a duck, from a French expression vendre un canard á moitié `to half-sell a duck.
After the Conquest English remained robustly alive during a period of bi- and trilingualism: the invading Normans spoke a French dialect which became for a time the language of the kings and the nobility, while contemporary English was spoken by the indigenous population; Latin was the language of record and of the law in general, and so it remained for about two centuries after the Conquest, with English as a close second.