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Example sentences for "les petits"

  • They always speak of themselves like that, the Belgian Army: "Les Petits Belges!

  • At some of the monsters that went grinding along one stared, gasping, realising for the first time what les petits Belges had been up against when they had pitted courage and honour and love of liberty against machinery like that.

  • As a New Year's greeting for 1844, Balzac dedicated to Madame Hanska Les Bourgeois de Paris, later called Les petits Bourgeois, saying that the first work written after his brief visit with her should be inscribed to her.

  • Les Petits Bressans Bresse, France Small goat cheeses named from food-famous Bresse, of the plump pullets, and often stimulated with brandy before being wrapped in fresh vine leaves, like Les Petits Banons.

  • Madame Sempé was the first to call us les petits américains.

  • They took it for granted that les petits américains were living at Twenty-One because that sort of fun appealed to us.

  • When they realized that les petits américains over the épicerie were having a weekly "at home," they were confirmed in their impression of our wealth.

  • There must have been something about les petits américains that interested him, for our meals could not compete with Mademoiselle Guyenot's.

  • Lockroy, also made overtures to the hitherto despised dramatist; and Balzac thought of providing him with a comedy entitled "Les Petits Bourgeois," but abandoned the idea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another nature; before hinted; high time; les enfants; les petits; les premiers; less conspicuous; less curved; less degree; less differentiated; less elongated; less flattened; less frequent; less general; less liable; less likely; less perfect; less quantity; less severe; less sterile; less than; less then; less white; lesser extent; periodic cyclones; quite unable