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Example sentences for "gauche"

Lexicographically close words:
gathers; gation; gator; gators; gatt; gaucherie; gaucho; gauchos; gaud; gaudent
  1. With the contrariety of human nature, some people would say of feminine nature, now that I felt I was not going to live much longer on the rive gauche I was getting quite fond of it.

  2. Harriet felt rather sorry for the gauche little creature who flung aside her hat and wrap, and sat biting her gold pen-handle, and spoiling sheet after sheet of paper.

  3. Once at the great hall his mother put the gauche little Peg at her ease, introduced her to the most charming of partners, and saw that everything was done to minister, to her enjoyment.

  4. Mrs. Chichester went cold when she saw the gauche act.

  5. Their proper game would be to try and form a Liberal-Conservative party of the Centre Gauche, the Centre Droit, and the Gauche Republicaine, with whose support and that of the country at large, they might keep the Ultra Reds in check.

  6. He is of the section of the Chamber called 'Gauche radical,' that is to say, he falls just short of the most extreme Left.

  7. And we used to laugh at him together, behind his back, and christened him the wild Indian, because he was so gauche and shy.

  8. How very gauche and rude of him; so unlike him, too!

  9. During the day the British repeatedly attacked, and finally forced them to withdraw from the height to the lower ground, and occupying the position, and also Gauche Wood, pushed on to the western edge of Gonnelieu.

  10. During the assault on Gauche Wood one British tank captured fifteen machine guns from the enemy.

  11. After the recapture of Gauche Wood the British continued to push on up to the higher ground southwest of the wood.

  12. Bayou Gauche in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, are juvenal males that combine the characteristics of pallidus and hartwegi; the carapaces are covered with blackish spots and posteriorly have distinct whitish dots.

  13. I grew more rigid and more gauche every minute, and I know not what would have become of me if the doctor, who had left the room to look for his wife, had not come to my relief.

  14. You know she's horridly shy, and as gauche as if she lived in the backwoods, and we meant to 'send her to Coventry.

  15. She knocked over a footstool as she did so, and one or two people looked round and shrugged their shoulders at the poor gauche girl.

  16. Priscilla had completely dropped her role of the awkward and gauche girl.

  17. Early on the morning of December 1, in conjunction with the Guards Division and 4th and 5th Cavalry Divisions, the 2nd Brigade delivered a counter-attack against Villers Guislain and Gauche wood.

  18. Laughing at convention and at the threats of her shocked relatives, she set up housekeeping on her own account, managing the affairs of her Rive Gauche mansion with the ease of a fifty-year-old grande dame.

  19. About the same time The Gauche was on his way to the Mandan, they returned suddenly from the Platte and took possession of their village a short distance from the Mandan.

  20. The Gauche was a very old man and had had the smallpox in the north; he was also famed in their annals as a leader and divining man.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.