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Example sentences for "tenue"

Lexicographically close words:
tenting; tention; tentorium; tents; tenu; tenues; tenui; tenuis; tenuit; tenuity
  1. Under his overcoat he has only a canvas shirt and white linen trousers (when en tenue de campagne d'Afrique), tucked into leather gaiters.

  2. Now she appeared in a startling tenue of khaki riding-breeches and flannel shirt, with one of the wide-brimmed cow-person hats.

  3. Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure.

  4. And then to go on with, they did not know a thing of the duties of the position, or the tenue which is required to keep up the dignity of an old title, so when it came to the scratch they were found wanting.

  5. The French foreign soldier marches with an equipment called the "tenue de campagne d'Afrique.

  6. En tenue de campagne d'Afrique," the corporals shouted, and renewed rejoicing answered them.

  7. I came in the garb of ordinary life; and at once felt uncomfortable when, mounting the stairs, I was received by a portly gentleman and an affable lady in violent tenue de soir.

  8. You shall be dressed in the tenue of a French flying officer; you shall avoid French or Belgian officers who might ask questions the most embarrassing.


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