Example sentences for: manet

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

  • It's the uneasy conjunction of race and sexuality that rankles, the suspicion that for Manet, the black maid added a kinky allure to the charms of the snide white prostitute.

  • When Renoir's well-off fellow Impressionists, the aristocrat Manet or the banker's son Degas, strolled through the working-class neighborhoods of Montmartre, they were consciously slumming.

  • 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.

  • Pissarro, though Walcott doesn't mention it, was a native of the small Jewish community in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, while the 17-year-old Manet traveled the Caribbean as a sailor in training.

  • "Manet in Martinique" evokes ghosts of French culture inhabiting the island.


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