Example sentences for: gargantua

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

  • Once it became obvious that the case was being lost, the defendant's lawyer blamed the whole flap on a printer's error, maintaining that his client's original ad copy depicted Gargantua speaking in the future tense of the verb: “Un de ces jours, on jumbo frankfurtera dans les coins” [`One of these days, folks around here will be eating big hot dogs.

  • The cause of Maître-Créche's legal troubles was a poster depicting Rabelais' famous comic figure Gargantua staring forlornly at an empty hot-dog roll and sighing, “Que j'eusse bien aimé jumbo frankfurther aujourd'hui!”

  • 4. Perhaps the mystery of the origin of the verb goose might be cleared up by examining the opening chapter of Gargantua , by Rabelais.

  • Any discussion of what constitutes style must encompass tributaries as diverse as the lavatory humor found in Gargantua & Pantagruel and the exquisite diction presiding over Belinda's toilette in The Rape of the Lock .


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