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Example sentences for "carte blanche"

  • Carte blanche#: literally, a white card to be filled up as one pleases; hence, unlimited power.

  • If a player have a hand dealt him without king, queen or knave, he may declare carte blanche before playing a card.

  • Above all, the new commander gave Buonaparte carte blanche for the direction of the artillery.

  • Later on that day he allows Maret to send a despatch giving Caulaincourt "carte blanche" to conclude peace.

  • So let us do this: let us go back to my lodgings, and I will give you a 'carte blanche' signed by my hand, and sealed with my coat of arms.

  • But if you do not wish to come to an agreement, here is your letter and his answer, a 'carte blanche,' sealed and signed by his hand.

  • Tirant went back to his lodging with the king-of-arms, and he immediately drew up the 'carte blanche.

  • I'll give him carte blanche, Maud, but I must choose colours and style.

  • Selby has carte blanche to do anything he can.

  • I've given carte blanche for everything about it The firm is honest and I won't have scamped work.

  • He thinks I'm a great lover of music, as I've offered him carte blanche as to price!

  • Sir Jasper had given carte blanche to his niece to do as she pleased on the occasion and she did so accordingly.

  • On quitting Calcutta, his good friends gave him a carte blanche to visit them whenever duty or pleasure should bring him into their neighborhood.

  • The Emperor persistently refused, but wrote giving the minister "carte blanche" to take any measure which would save the capital.

  • He arrived to find Caulaincourt departing; the second "carte blanche" had arrived too late.

  • I rode up to him and pointed this out, and in reply received carte blanche to act as I saw best.

  • He considered the whole as "a private matter between him and the government, who gave him a carte blanche to do his worst, which he had done.

  • This direct refusal of justice, with a carte blanche to act in whatever manner I thought proper, were the sole causes of the fatal catastrophe--and they have now to reflect on their own impure conduct for what has happened.

  • For this affair I had the carte blanche of government, as I will prove by the most incontestible evidence, namely, the writing of the secretary of state himself.

  • The Duke sent immediately for Sir Carte Blanche, the successor, in England, of Sir Christopher Wren.

  • Carte blanche, and charge it to me,' says Mr. Duncan.

  • Come back and have a little touch of carte blanche--it's on the old man.

  • Mr. Dowrish being about to declare, was stopped by Sir Arthur's claim for ten for carte blanche, which ruined his chances.

  • Sir Arthur took the bet, having a claim of carte blanche on his undiscarded hand.

  • It was spacious and elegant--indeed it was furnished with great splendor, inasmuch as carte blanche had been given to a fashionable upholsterer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carte blanche; concerning whom; expected every; food and live animals; gentleman like; grand committee; ground color; internal combustion; left here; less extensive; little father; lived together; love hath; loyal subjects; more slave; noble deeds; other foods; other painters; transitional forms; verdict against; wooden house; you now