Example sentences for: marseilles

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

  • The Times Atlas of the World (1967) does better; in the gazetteer it gives Lyons, France, see Lyon, and Marseilles, see Marseille.

  • When their position was threatened by Ligurian pirates at sea and warlike tribes from inland, the merchants of Marseilles called on Rome for help.

  • It quoted a letter written by Cousteau in 1941, when he was working for French naval intelligence in Marseilles, complaining about the lack of decent accommodation.

  • In a cave in the Ardeche near Valence, Alban Defleur of the University of the Mediterranean in Marseilles and Tim White of the University of California at Berkeley discovered 100,000-year-old human bones mixed up with those of animals, all of them looking like the leftovers from dinner.

  • The heading MARSEILLES is given with no reference to the spelling Marseille , except when reproducing similar names or as a place of publication.


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