Example sentences for: gaul

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

  • The poet William Cowper once wrote “philologists who trace/A panting syllable through time and space,/Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark/To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.”

  • Unmitigated Gaul

  • Caesar drew Gaul’s northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger­man­ic tribes across the river — the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons — would always threaten the security of the frontier.

  • Spain’s Arab rulers exploited this disunity to sweep north across Gaul, controlling Langue­doc, Dordogne, and a large part of Provence, before being defeated at Poitiers in 732 by the army of Charles Martel.

  • Fans of the Astérix comics about ancient Gaul and the Romans will enjoy the Parc Astérix theme park, near Autoroute A1 between Roissy (Charles-de-Gaulle airport) and Senlis, open April to October; Tel. 03 44 62 34 34.


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