Example sentences for: vichy

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

  • from Montréal City Hall, forgetting for a moment that French-Canadian leaders had sided with his Vichy enemies during World War II.

  • When France fell in World War II, the FWI’s administrator, Admiral Georges Robert, decreed allegiance to the Vichy regime, although most of the islanders were against the move.

  • In 1945, when I was managing editor of the monthly magazine Common Sense (my editor was Varian Fry, who had returned to New York after saving countless lives of artists and writers by arranging for their exit from Vichy France to Spain and Portugal and then to safer havens), I had asked Tucci to write a monthly column.

  • The stories weren't necessarily written in the decade they're filed under: The opening work, "The Moslem Wife," about Netta, a strangely sheltered Englishwoman who lives in Southern France with her callow husband Jack, evokes the Vichy period but was written in 1976.

  • Based in the Auvergnat spa town of Vichy, the French government often proved more zealous than its masters in suppressing civil liberties and drawing up anti-Jewish legislation.


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