Example sentences for: maître-

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

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


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