(a.) Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
(n.) The language spoken in France.
(n.) Collectively, the people of France.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(3) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(4) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(5) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(6) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(7) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(8) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(9) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
(10) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(11) We report a case of tuberculous dactylitis--spina ventosa--in a 5 year-old girl from a French upper class family.
(12) In Belgium the proportion of adenocarcinomas is much higher than in any of the French registries.
(13) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(14) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
(15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(16) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(17) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(18) A national distribution of 66 French patients, from 49 sibships, has been studied.
(19) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(20) French authors call it "the syndrome of the fifth day".
Seedy
Definition:
(superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
(superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
(superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calculations were based on the contamination of 2310 specimens of citrus fruits, pitted and seedy fruits and vegetables collected in the 1985-86 and 1989 campaigns.
(2) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(3) "It is artistic and not dark or seedy," the broadcaster said, while admitting that "in hindsight" the title may have caused problems.
(4) Sugiura was believed to have been negotiating a settlement to a territorial dispute in Tokyo's seedy Roppongi district with the Kokusui-kai, a smaller Tokyo-based gang that joined the Yamaguchi-gumi in 2005, just as the latter began extending its influence in the capital and other parts of eastern Japan .
(5) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
(6) Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
(7) He also realised that if Las Vegas's seedy image was changed, it could bring in a new clientele.
(8) The character grew out of a sketch called "Seedy Boss" that Gervais's long-time writing partner, Stephen Merchant, shot for his BBC training course.
(9) But following a murder and two high-profile arson attacks in the past month, the Kent town has been the subject of a series of lurid headlines that suggest it may take more than a cultural revolution for Margate to escape its seedy past.
(10) Both brothers said they wanted to put the seedy deals of the Blair-Brown era behind them.
(11) There are networks of mateship that become pretty seedy, they are about influence peddling and become more dangerous, he says.
(12) The Gare du Midi neighbourhood is seen by many as a seedy area where you don’t want to hang around if you can help it (and with a Eurostar ticket you can easily hop on a train to the smartly renovated Central Station).
(13) "This seedy bid would shame a banana republic," Watson said, while Labour frontbencher Ivan Lewis asked why Hunt had had "so little to say on the phone hacking scandal".
(14) The story begins in 1960 when the 43-year-old Anthony Burgess returned from Singapore to find the England he'd left in the late Forties transformed into an ugly divided country where the last seedy Teds prowled the streets of London and race riots had erupted in our big cities.
(15) Ten minutes walk from Frankfurt's main railway station, through a warren of sex shops and seedy gambling dens, two dozen of the most powerful unelected people on the continent gather once a fortnight to try to save Europe from itself.
(16) I had always thought of him as seedy – a walking STD in skinny jeans – but he looks surprisingly wholesome: lovely olive skin, Malteser-brown eyes, well-washed, tactile (more knee patting than you’d get off Terry Wogan in his prime).
(17) Instead of the seedy anti-democratic gang that plotted against a Labour prime minister, they can claim to be the first line of defence against indiscriminate attacks on the streets of Britain.
(18) The more we talk, and the more you listen to his old material, the more he seems less like the righteous Bill Hicks type "lazy" journalists like to compare him to, and more a Charles Bukowski -esque character: a drunken deadbeat throwing out tales from America's seedy underbelly without caring too much what the "message" is.
(19) Subjects were then examined and the four quadrants of each breast were rated on a scale of 0 to 3 (0 = normal, fatty tissue, 1 = little seedy bumps or fine nodularity, 2 = discrete nodules or ropy tissue, 3 = confluent areas, hard or soft masses).
(20) It has not entirely shaken off its earliest, seedy connotations – but then that’s part of its charm.