Example sentences for: québec

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

  • The British enlarged it in 1820 to defend Québec City against the Americans, but their cannons never fired a shot in anger.

  • Otherwise head through the airy but unexceptional modern city to the historic center of Old Québec, where the fortified Upper and Lower Town stand at the top and bottom of Cap Diamant, linked by a steep road and funicular railway.

  • As you travel from bilingual Montréal to New France’s old capital Québec City and the resolutely French-speaking farm villages along the St. Lawrence and around the Gaspé Peninsula, have a thought for local patriotic sensibility.

  • In the perennial Anglo-French conflict, bilingual Montréal was too troublesome, while English-speaking Toronto or French-speaking Québec City would favor one community at the expense of the other.

  • In 1967, De Gaulle declaimed his famous “Vive le Québec libre!”


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