Example sentences for: gauche

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

  • Despite the concerted efforts of the fashion and media worlds to move in on it, the bohemians and intellectuals hang on to their time-honored stronghold on the Left Bank (rive gauche).

  • Your take on his behavior was correct: It was gauche . Prudie does have one slight bit of curiosity about the faux pas.

  • The Carré Rive Gauche, bounded by the quai Voltaire, the boulevard St-Germain, and the rues du Bac and des Sts-Pères, is something of a museum of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, pre-Columbian, African, and Polynesian art, as well as Louis XV, Second Empire, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco.

  • Gauche, gauche, gauche, and tacky.

  • You are correct that you cannot come right out and say, "It is gauche to come over and serenade me with your potato chips, so please go away."


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