Example sentences for: montmartre

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

  • Montparnasse took over from Montmartre as the haunt of the avant-garde in the 1920s and still stakes a claim.

  • Just a few steps west of Sacré-Cœur is St-Pierre-de-Montmartre, one of the city’s oldest churches.

  • The historic center of the city has something of the atmosphere of France’s Atlantic port towns in the neighborhood down by the St. Lawrence River, while the streets and squares up on the promontory offer North Americans a first hint of Paris’s Latin Quarter or even Montmartre.

  • When Renoir's well-off fellow Impressionists, the aristocrat Manet or the banker's son Degas, strolled through the working-class neighborhoods of Montmartre, they were consciously slumming.

  • 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).


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