Example sentences for: versailles

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

  • What better way to keep potential trouble-makers under his thumb than to coop them up at Versailles, and let them squabble for rights and privileges as futile as attending His Majesty’s awakening?

  • To carry this a step farther, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor Bienville’s successor in 1743, attempted to transform New Orleans into an overseas Versailles.

  • France seemed less aware of the threat from Nazi Germany, allowing Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland in 1936 in breach of the Versailles Treaty, a step Hitler later said he had never dreamt of getting away with.

  • But nobody quite connects the dots on what the comparison could mean for the planet: The Versailles vote is now considered to be one of the principal causes of World War II.

  • Versailles is as extravagant, formidable, and vainglorious as the man himself.


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