Example sentences for: monsieur

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

  • Onomastics is basically the science of worrying about names and Monsieur Tesnières--an appellation, as it happens, regrettably free of all sexual or scatological interest--is much exercised by the fact that three centuries from now 97 per cent of all French family names will have vanished, with only 7500 surviving out of the estimated present stock of 250,000.

  • He thus had a rendezvous (meeting) with the Director-General (principal), Monsieur Gendron, and stated that it was a primordial (essential) consideration that some teachers be let go before they reached permanence (tenure) under the syndicate (union) agreement.

  • The most respected mechanic in the village of St. Martin d'Ardèche, not far from where I live, is called Monsieur Salaud . And in another nearby village the job of mayor is held down by the amiable Madame Bordel . Perfectly ordinary-sounding French names--with the sole drawback that salaud means `bastard' and bordel means `brothel'; and all over France these unfortunates have for company the bearers of such names as Lacrotte `turd,' Vachier `piss off,' Connard `bloody fool,' and Putin `whore'-- not to mention such real unprintables like Baize and Ducon .

  • She was in a French school in Paris that year, learning to read; the city was plastered with campaign posters for Tixier-Vignancourt, whom she thereafter referred to as “Monsieur Ticks-in-Vinegar.”

  • Monsieur Gendron wrote back saying that he had requested a subvention (grant) in the annex (appendix) to his planification (policy) budget to the confessional (denominational) school board in order that formation modalities (training methods) could be created to make teachers more dynamic animators (group leaders).


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