Example sentences for: gustave

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

  • The stately elevator, a 1902 Victorian marvel of iron and glass, was built by Raul Mesnier (not Gustave Eiffel, as many continue to believe).

  • Outstanding in the ground floor collections are the vast canvases of Gustave Courbet.

  • Just as an example: I almost wish I didn't know that the inscription Emma Bovary put on the walking stick she gave to her lover, Rodolphe, was stolen verbatim from a gift that Gustave Flaubert got himself, from his lover Louise Colet.

  • On the tower’s inauguration, the lifts were not yet in operation and Prime Minister Tirard, aged 62, stopped at the first platform, 57 m (187 ft) up, letting his younger Minister of Commerce continue to the top to present Gustave Eiffel with the Legion of Honor medal.

  • It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.


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