Example sentences for: pierre

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

  • The FWI’s worst modern tragedy came in 1902 when the sophisticated city of Saint-Pierre was totally destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelée.

  • The British had scattered Nova Scotia’s French Acadians, some to the nearby islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon (still French today), others as far as Louisiana, while a small nucleus remained in New Brunswick.

  • Book -- Simenon: A Biography , by Pierre Assouline, translated by Jon Rothschild;

  • The French philosopher Pierre Bayle, for example, set out in the 1690s to produce a vast reference work, Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), whose sole purpose was to point out the mistakes in all other previously published reference works.

  • Train enthusiasts should head out to the Canadian Railway Museum in the southern suburb of St-Constant, 122A rue St-Pierre.


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