Example sentences for: sorbonne

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

  • Over on the quiet, tree-shaded place de la Sorbonne, it’s hard to imagine the police invading such a peaceful sanctuary — one that for centuries guaranteed student immunity.

  • In the aftermath of the revolts, the Sorbonne was absorbed into the huge Paris Universities monolith and lost its independence.

  • Standing virtually opposite the Sorbonne’s rue des Ecoles entrance, at 6 place Paul-Painlevé, are the massive brick ruins of the ancient Roman public baths.

  • Unlike the students of Columbia or the Sorbonne, they persevered, and they won--something.

  • But he closes with the darker speculations of Andre Glucksmann, a leader of the Sorbonne rebels of 1968 and a later convert to conservatism, that the utopian enthusiasm of those years simply did not take sufficient account of the fundamental reality of evil in the human psyche.


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