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Example sentences for "rouge"

Lexicographically close words:
roubles; rouch; roue; rouers; roues; rouged; rough; roughage; roughed; roughen
  1. A coalition government, formed after national elections in 1998, brought renewed political stability and the surrender of remaining Khmer Rouge forces.

  2. What think you of trying some new game where you have more experience, or where the chances are greater than in that of rouge et noir?

  3. In one of these, the crowd and heat were so great, that I should immediately have retired if I had not been struck with the extreme and intense expression of interest in the countenance of one of the spectators at the rouge et noir table.

  4. In spite of Minturn's insistence that he chance his money with them, Lawrence managed to put it off by saying that he preferred rouge et noir.

  5. His presence in the rouge et noir game was the important thing, and Lawrence instantly began to cudgel his brains as to how he might take advantage of this discovery.

  6. Suppose the midgets had died; then the battalion of the Bonnet-Rouge would have been dishonored.

  7. The clothes given them by the battalion of the Bonnet-Rouge were in tatters; they had not even a shirt between them.

  8. I was greatly disconcerted, and he completed my discomfiture by remarking, “Two things are very becoming to women—rouge and tears.

  9. Suddenly, fixing a piercing gaze on me, Bonaparte said, “Why have you no rouge on?

  10. River Rouge enters Detroit river, a few miles below the city of Detroit.

  11. One morning Horizon ordered her to dress a little better, curl her hair, powder herself, put a little rouge on her cheeks, and carried her off to a den, to his acquaintance.

  12. Then out and spake her Rouge the Rounde, And leugh right hertilie, "She has been wi' ye this year and mair, Though ye wistna it was she.

  13. After passing through Bayou Rouge Swamp, and just at sunset, turning from the highway, we struck off into the "Big Cane Brake.

  14. If you say any more I'll go and rouge till you'll be ashamed to go out with me--there!

  15. She had evidently been weeping, but with powder and rouge she had tried to conceal the traces of her tears; and at dinner she sat silent, hardly answering when Margaret French spoke to her.

  16. He was giving the alarm to the colonists at Cape Rouge in the summer of 1653, when he was himself seized by the savages.

  17. At last, however, Cartier arrived at the mouth of what is now Cape Rouge River and found a spot where a fort should be built on the high point now called Redclyffe.

  18. The cordon bleu and the cordon rouge are in the like position, and abbeys are still more constantly subject to the régime of influence.

  19. His defeat made it possible to have a simon-pure Rouge contingent from Quebec.

  20. The Laurier sweep of Quebec in 1896 was the result of a combination of the Bleu and Rouge elements.

  21. To be a Rouge and to be in Montreal during the three weeks following the glorious 23rd of June was the height of felicity.

  22. The rapid retirement of the Rouge leaders, Dorion and Fournier to the bench and Letellier to the lieutenant-governorship of Quebec, opened the way for early promotion, and in 1877 he entered the cabinet of Alex.

  23. Various influences--the brilliance and resourcefulness of Cartier's leadership and antipathy to Rouge extremism among them--kept Bleu and Castor in an uneasy alliance.

  24. Under his guidance the Rouge party was to be transformed in outlook, mentality and convictions into something very different indeed; but this was still far in the future.

  25. A touch of kohl "lends to the eye a more decided appearance of a window opened upon infinity"; and rouge augments the brilliance of the eye, "and adds to a beautiful feminine face the mysterious passion of the priestess.

  26. Powder and rouge and kohl, all the little artifices that shock respectability, have for their end "the creation of an abstract unity in the grain and colour of the skin.

  27. The counterpart to the Rouge party in Lower Canada, elsewhere referred to, was the Clear Grit party in Upper Canada.

  28. A cloud of powder is most becoming, a touch of rouge has a charming effect, and even that blue shadow that they spread, I don't know how, under the eye.

  29. His eyes should be opened to the rouge and the Egyptian eye-stuff.

  30. This is a faint cut at Olga, who is fond of powder, and who has not scrupled to add to her charms by a little touch of rouge now and then when she felt pallor demanded it.

  31. Who run may read the rouge and veloutine that cover her face.

  32. What, then you know rouge already when you see it?

  33. Lady Singleton, would you rather at this moment be mistress of the philosopher's stone, or have a patent for rouge that will come and go like Miss Portman's?

  34. There was a glow under his Lordship's rouge as he raised his glass to his lips, and an almost tremor in his voice when he spoke again.

  35. I 'd not put on rouge if I had it; but I wish we were alone to-day, and could talk over our fortune together.

  36. The man who is so dexterous with rouge and pomatum cannot be spared.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rouge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrasive; base; blush; color; compact; cosmetics; crimson; file; flush; foundation; glow; inflame; lipstick; makeup; mantle; paint; pink; powder; puff; redden; rose; rouge; rust; vermilion; warm; wax