Example sentences for: french-

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

  • Descendants of Acadians and Loyalists, the warm and friendly Gaspesians are a more harmonious mix of French- and English-speaking citizens than elsewhere in Québec.

  • They resented the sending of Canadian troops to South Africa to support the British in the Boer War, and were no more enthusiastic about the Anglo-French alliance in World War I. Bourassa said “The real enemies of French-Canadians are not the Germans but English-Canadian anglicizers, the Ontario intriguers or Irish priests.”

  • Elegant, witty, and cosmopolitan, Trudeau became Liberal Prime Minister in 1968 — and like Wilfrid Laurier before him, just the kind of French-Canadian that Anglo-Canadians love.

  • Though greatly outnumbered, Anglo- and French-Canadians fought victoriously side by side at Châteauguay.

  • Originally an Anglo stronghold, part of it is still known even among French speakers as Upper-Outremont, family home of that splendidly ambiguous French-Canadian, prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.


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