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Example sentences for "carrefour"

Lexicographically close words:
carrack; carracks; carrageen; carraway; carred; carrell; carriage; carriages; carrid; carridge
  1. There is a block every few minutes, while the agents in the centre of the carrefour do their best to control the four streams of traffic.

  2. This monument, however, is some distance from the Institute, the Place Breteuil being the first carrefour in that vast and endless avenue which leads southwards from Napoleon's tomb.

  3. And now he passed the carrefour where he and Lorraine had first met.

  4. At the same moment he turned the corner; the carrefour lay before him, overgrown, silent, deserted.

  5. Just ahead, around the bend in the path, lay the grass-grown carrefour where he had first seen Lorraine.

  6. From the carrefour Jack turned to the left straight into the heart of the forest.

  7. This delay and the halt at the Carrefour Rollin to consult with his agents came near causing him to lose the trail.

  8. Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of Armuyr.

  9. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin.

  10. The Carrefour d'Argenin, at which the King and his attendants soon arrived, was a large open space in the forest, where four roads crossed.

  11. Order the Maitre valet de chiens to assemble the old pack and the relais at the Carrefour d'Argenin, and then we will quickly to horse.

  12. I left my father at the Carrefour du Grand-Chêne and I neither saw nor heard what happened after we had parted.

  13. We separated at the Carrefour du Grand-Chêne.

  14. The spot was known as the Carrefour du Grand Chêne, or Great Oak Crossways.

  15. The Carrefour du Bordage has indeed rendered many other services to society and religion.

  16. The city authorities devoted one of its squares, the Carrefour du Bordage, to that ceremony.

  17. The night was very dark and the narrow little Carrefour de la Poissonnerie very sparsely lighted.

  18. From right and left, from under the doorways of the houses in the Carrefour de la Poissonnerie the Marats who had been left on guard in the street now joined in the chase.

  19. In this year II of the Republic the Carrefour de la Poissonnerie was unpaved, dark and evil-smelling.

  20. She knew that she was in the Carrefour de la Poissonnerie.

  21. A few minutes longer, citizen Fleury," said Chauvelin, as the commandant of the Marats turned on his heel and started to go back to the Carrefour de la Poissonnerie.

  22. It starts from the Carrefour de la Croix-Rouge, where, before a cross in the centre of the Carrefour, criminals and political offenders were put to death.

  23. The cross-roads where it meets Quai du Louvre and the Pont-Neuf went in olden days by the name Carrefour des Trois-Maries, also by that of Place du Four.

  24. In deep meditation, therefore, they followed the pathway leading to the Carrefour des Demoiselles, when they met a horseman returning to the town.

  25. Abbé, just imagine being planted down on the Carrefour du Roi, together with the village doctor, the wife of the Chief of Police, and M.

  26. The carrefour was like the regulation Open Place in spectacular dramas, where the incidents that occur always happen to bear on the lives of the adjoining residents.

  27. The farmers as a rule preferred the open carrefour for their transactions, despite its inconvenient jostlings and the danger from crossing vehicles, to the gloomy sheltered market-room provided for them.

  28. They were shouting down by the carrefour now; clear, mellow whistle signals sounded persistently.

  29. Where the ride crossed at the carrefour they halted.

  30. Suddenly out into the carrefour stepped a superb red stag, ears alert, beautiful head half turned at gaze.

  31. Lesse is a heap of cinders; they drove the forest and shot the driven game from the steps of the carrefour shrine.

  32. A veil of smoky haze made the carrefour greyer now, through which at intervals a dying stag lifted its long neck from the shambles about him or some strong feathered thing beat its broken wings impotently upon the grass.

  33. Guild and Darrel had taken rifles; they stood firing down at the carrefour where the horses of the Uhlan advanced guard were plunging about in disorder under a confusion of lances and fluttering pennons.

  34. Out into the carrefour stepped briskly eight or ten German officers, smart and elegant and trim in their sea-grey uniforms and their spiked helmets shrouded with grey so that there was not a glitter from point to spur.

  35. There was a grassy carrefour where a fountain spouted into a stone pool; all else was forest; a stream sparkled between tree-trunks, bridged where the drive crossed it.

  36. After that," he went on, "we walked back along the main ride to a carrefour where the drive crosses; and so back here.

  37. And all the while The Pulpit resounded with the rifle-fire of its little garrison, and soldiers were dropping along the carrefour and the ride.

  38. For fully ten minutes neither spoke, and then the horses slackened their pace upon the Carrefour du Bout des Lacs.

  39. Under the arching trees in their new spring green and through the silence of the sunlit spring morning, there came to them the music of the falling water from the Carrefour des Cascades.

  40. The chief carrefour there is at the junction of the Pollet, High Street and Smith Street; another is in the country, the Carrefour aux Lievres, the precise locality of which I cannot quite recall.

  41. We turn to the right, at the place shown on the opposite photograph, and a few steps further on, reach the +Carrefour de la Licorne+.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carrefour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crossing; intersection; overpass; rotary; viaduct