Example sentences for: triomphe

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

  • Napoléon wanted it as a temple of glory for his army, but his architect suggested the Arc de Triomphe instead.

  • Built with remarkable speed (Danish architect Johann-Otto von Sprekelsen won the contest in 1983 and it was ready for the bicentennial of the French Revolution in 1989), the Grande Arche stands on an axis with the Arc de Triomphe and the Cour Carrée of the Louvre.

  • At the eastern entrance to the Tuileries, the pink Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was built at roughly the same time as its bigger brother at l’Etoile.

  • The summer meetings at Longchamp (venue of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe), Auteuil, and Chantilly are as elegant as Britain’s Ascot.

  • But the statue misses, and the ball sails over the Atlantic, past a curious Big Ben and the Arc de Triomphe.


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