Example sentences for: maître-

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

  • For what M. Maître-Crèche used was not the imperfect subjunctive of the verb jumbo frankfurter but of the verb aimer.

  • Maître-Créche, on the other hand, was charged with a felony, punishable by a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, because the term was not used in “the ephemeral, innocuous context of speech,” according to the prosecutor, but in the “semi-non-ephemeral, culturally reverberative context of advertising.”

  • The cause of Maître-Créche's legal troubles was a poster depicting Rabelais' famous comic figure Gargantua staring forlornly at an empty hot-dog roll and sighing, “Que j'eusse bien aimé jumbo frankfurther aujourd'hui!”

  • Experts on French criminal syntax say that Maître-Crèche was lucky that he didn't use the future anterior tense, which is punishable by the guillotine.

  • I have of course no sympathy for M. Maître-Crèche.


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