Example sentences for: marcel

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

  • "Seen on the walls of a museum," Marcel Proust wrote, Madame Charpentier "will give a greater impression of elegance than anything since the great paintings of the Renaissance."

  • Works include those by Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Magritte, Kandinsky, and Klee, but it is known above all for Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell.

  • From one point of view, Johns' flags and targets derive from the famous ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp--the urinal, the bicycle wheel, the snow shovel, all exhibited before 1920.

  • A nook devoted to playful gewgaws by Marcel Duchamp, whom Paz adored.

  • In Swann's Way , Marcel Proust compared the little phrase of the composer Vinteuil, the "national anthem" of Swann's love for Odette, to one of "those interiors by Pieter de Hooch which are deepened by the narrow frame of a half-opened door, in the far distance, of a different color, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light."


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