Example sentences for: french-

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

  • French-Canadians were also multiplying rapidly, from 60,000 when New France was abandoned in 1760 to 330,000 fifty years later.

  • As a progressive minister of justice, who reformed laws against homosexuality, divorce, birth control, and abortion, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was sympathetic to the French-Canadians’ demand to have their language placed on an equal national footing with English.

  • Completely bilingual, he was determined to forge Anglo- and French-Canadians into one nation, comparing them to the waters of the Ottawa river and Great Lakes meeting below the island of Montréal: “parallel, separate, distinguishable, and yet one stream, flowing within the same banks.”

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

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


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