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Example sentences for "savoir faire"

  • And having thus obeyed the obscure instincts of savoir faire, satisfied some obscurer desire to flatter, he went on: "My girl showed me your letter.

  • Upset by the events of the afternoon, Lady Valleys had not shown her usual 'savoir faire'.

  • But she had great trust in the preacher's instinct of hospitality, and in Mr. Sauls' savoir faire.

  • Miss Cripps had no savoir faire whatever, and they were all taken by surprise, and stared silently at the apparition in evening dress, suddenly appearing in that dull room.

  • She had often in old days had reason to be grateful to Mr. Sauls for his savoir faire; now she was once more thankful for it.

  • But tink of other women--the trouble with you is, you have no, as the French people say, you have no savoir faire.

  • Again in my eventful career I felt myself tremble; I knew not what I should say, any savoir faire being quite gone.

  • I fell weakly into the chair by which I had stood, for the first time in a not uneventful career feeling that my savoir faire had been overtaxed.

  • She meant that he was not an aristocrat, and did not possess the savoir faire, or the family associations, that completely round out the American or English gentleman.

  • Americans of the official class have, as a rule, an absolute lack of savoir faire and social refinement; lack them so utterly as to become comical.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savoir faire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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