Example sentences for: french-

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • French-Canadians insisted on a federal system with stronger provincial governments, to protect specific Québécois interests in property and civil rights.

  • Papineau asked London for guarantees of autonomy for a Lower Canada assembly dominated by French-Canadians.

  • With the many splits between Anglo- and French-Canadians, Protestants and Catholics, ice hockey is the closest thing the country has to a state religion.


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