Example sentences for: montmartre

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.


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