Example sentences for: frontenac

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

  • Start on top of the rock, where the city’s principal landmark is a hotel, the Château Frontenac, looming over the town since 1892 like the protective fortress it no longer needs.

  • It is named after Count Louis de Frontenac, a rascally 17th-century French governor who upset the clergy by encouraging the sale of brandy to the native peoples.

  • Because of its dramatic location and the fairytale turrets of its Gothic-Renaissance architecture, the Frontenac is one of the most charmingly bombastic of all the many grand hotels that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways put up across the country as symbols of their commercial power.

  • North of the Frontenac, Place d’Armes is the center of Old Québec, where troops were mustered and paraded, proclamations read out, criminals whipped or executed.


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