Example sentences for: parisian

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

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • Meanwhile, Parisian store windows are full of columnar skirts meant to graze the shoe tops, and women in the street adhere in great numbers to the miniskirt--that is, anything 3 inches or more above the knee.

  • We say we didn't realize there was calcium in the Parisian water.

  • A Parisian advertising copywriter has been sentenced to eight years in prison for an ad campaign in which he premeditatedly employed an archaic tense of a verb that appears on the French Cultural Ministry's Index of Officially Proscribed Franglaisms.

  • While a sörözo is often similar to a German bierstube, however, a borozó is rarely like a Parisian wine bar (and neither serves only beer or wine).


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