Example sentences for: seine

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

  • Second-hand bookshops, commonly known as bouquinistes, line the quays of the Seine, especially between Pont St-Michel and Pont des Arts.

  • To get your bearings, picture Paris as a circle, with the river Seine threading across the center, flanked by famous landmarks — Notre-Dame, the Louvre, place de la Concorde, Arc de Triomphe, the Tour Eiffel.

  • The Normans from Scan­di­navia took advantage of the Carolingian dynasty’s divided kingdom, pillaging their way inland along the Loire and the Seine, and plundering Paris in 845.

  • They say that Queen Jeanne de Bourgogne used the tower to watch out for likely young lovers, whom she summoned for the night and then had thrown into the Seine.

  • In place Emile Goudeau, just downhill but artistically on an altogether much higher level, number 13 was the site of the studio known as the Bateau-Lavoir (so-called because the building resembled the Seine’s laundry boats, before it was destroyed by fire).


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