Example sentences for: vivre

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

  • vivre comme un coq en pâté, Lit. to live like a cockerel in pastry: to be in clover

  • But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .

  • 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.

  • Her mother, née Capet, was a grande dame, full of savoir faire and joie de vivre, who later became a clairvoyant and spent her time in séances and collecting naïf gouaches and objets d'art.

  • No matter how prodigious your joie de vivre, partir c'est mourir un peu, don't you think?


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