Example sentences for: parisian

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

  • The wicked Parisian cancan dates from this steamy epoch.

  • 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.

  • With the excessive enthusiasm that characterized the age, Baron Haussmann’s urban planning redeveloped old Parisian neighborhoods to create a more airy and spacious capital.

  • The talent is name-brand--among the stars scheduled to shine there briefly at some point in the future are Harvard theologian Cornel West, Harvard philosopher Anthony Appiah, Parisian semiotician Julia Kristeva, feminist psychoanalytic critic Juliet Mitchell, and even, interestingly, that elegist of public intellectualism lost, Russell Jacoby, author of The Last Intellectuals --but all of them are of a political inclination (leftish) that has been losing the culture wars on campus of late.

  • The son of a Parisian porcelain merchant, Schoelcher was inspired to wage a 15-year struggle to free the slaves by what he saw on three trips to the Caribbean.


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