Example sentences for: gallic

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

  • Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.

  • While on matters Gallic I would point out, in regard to Don Sharp's article in the same issue [XVII, 2], that, though not as addicted to the practice as American English, French is also given to creating words from letter abbreviations.

  • After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.

  • Gallic unity collapsed with the crumbling Roman Empire.

  • Depardieu, meanwhile, demonstrates that Gallic ham is fattier than its Anglo counterpart.


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