Example sentences for: une

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

  • The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.

  • A little pun in his Nobel lecture appears to gloss over, and even celebrate, the privations of underdevelopment: "In the Antilles poverty is poetry with a 'v,' une vie , a condition of life as well as of imagination."

  • avoir une peur bleue

  • soul comme une grive,...un polonais,...une bourrique, Lit. as drunk as a thrush,... a Pole, ... a donkey: as drunk as a lord

  • Ceci n'est pas une critique ... a measured assessment of a Magritte exhibition in London.


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