Example sentences for: moyen

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

  • These are 19th-century restorations: The originals were torn down during the Revolution because they were thought to depict kings of France (21 of them were recently discovered and preserved in the Musée du Moyen Age, see page 55).

  • Too many modern artists have a penchant for leaning over backwards to tease critics, but forget all about I'homme moyen sensuel who, more often than not, likes his pictures in comics.

  • Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.

  • Musée National du Moyen Age(Musée de Cluny)

  • They survived as part of an abbey — now the Musée National du Moyen Age, still often called by its former name, Musée de Cluny (see page 72).


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