Example sentences for: manet

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

  • Like Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet in the previous generation of French painters, Bonnard (1867-1947) was born into the high bourgeoisie (his father served in the upper echelons of the War Ministry), and like those painters he had a taste for the demimonde.

  • This was precisely the sort of charge that was leveled at Manet in 1869.

  • How could a serious European artist, a contemporary of Degas' and Manet's, spend his time filling medieval ghost towns with somnambulant knights and maidens?

  • Ever since a scandalized Parisian populace greeted the unveiling of Edouard Manet's Olympia with shocked indignation, controversy has been one measure of seriousness in Western art.

  • All the more remarkable, then, that the article on Manet has a title that exactly matches Fry's in rhythm, rhyme, and grammar, the match extending to the curious use of lady to denote in the one a medieval wench thought to be a witch and in the other a French nude of dubious virtue.


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