Example sentences for: montmartre

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

  • The Montmartrobus spares you the walk and shows you some of the area in a single tour, but the best way to discover Montmartre at your own pace is to start early, at the top.

  • On the rue St-Vincent at the corner of rue des Saules, look out for Paris’ last surviving vineyard, the tiny Clos de Montmartre, producing a wine that reputedly “makes you jump like a goat.”

  • Montmartre is really a hilltop village (“La Butte” to its residents), with narrow, winding streets and dead-ends.

  • Holed up in his squalid attic studio in Montmartre (models complained of the dust, but Degas believed that sweeping just moved the dust around), Degas narrowed his subject matter to a few recurrent motifs--women bathing, having their hair combed, and dancing--while at the same time experimenting with a remarkable range of techniques and media (photography, tracing paper, lurid color combinations).

  • The principal cemetery of Montmartre, where luminaries of the arts such as the composers Berlioz and Offenbach lie buried, may seem a world away, but it’s only a short walk west from the Moulin Rouge to the entrance (west past the Moulin Rouge, then right at avenue Rachel).


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