Example sentences for: les

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

  • But I would frequently raise my eyes to watch the girls ( les filles ) go by.

  • Herbert Kretzmer, one of the lyricists of Les Misérables , put it to me this way: "It's a question of finding what Johnny Mercer called the sound of the music.

  • At those rates, perhaps it should come as no surprise that 71 percent of low-income people and 61 percent of moderate-income people with civil troub les end up without representation, according to the American Bar Association.

  • Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois ; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it.

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.


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