Example sentences for: maître-

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

  • 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!”

  • However, if M. Maître-Crèche is to serve eight years, the judges must get life, or even death.

  • Lucien Maître-Créche, a 48-year-old copywriter specializing in fast-food accounts, was found guilty by a jury of eight men and four women of deliberately using the imperfect subjunctive tense of the franglaism jumbo frankfurter in a series of ads posted in the Paris Metro system.

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

  • Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.


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