How do you use Contre in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts.
Contre in a sentence
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Context around Contre
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Contre
- In this selection, "contre" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, haute, attaque and sainte stand out and add context to how "contre" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an haute contre a high and des forêts contre le feu. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "contre" sits close to words such as aad, abdali and abels, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with contre
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The French had their own names: "Cinquiesme" was a small viola,"Haute Contre" was a large viola and "Taile" meant "Tenor". (21 words)
The French disliked castrati, preferring their male heroes to be sung by an haute-contre (a high tenor), of which Joseph Legros (1739–1793) was a leading example. (28 words)
The Contre Attaque website comments, “In terms of human damage, judicial treatment and the arsenal deployed, the repression of June-July 2023 is quite simply unprecedented since the Algerian war. (30 words)
In Quebec, the largest province by land area, about 150 fires are active, with most of them out of control, according to the of the Société de Protection des Forêts Contre le Feu, a Quebec non-profit organization. (38 words)
In addition, in the spring and summer of the year Proust began work on several different fragments of writing that would later coalesce under the working title of Contre Sainte-Beuve. (31 words)
The Contre Attaque website comments, “In terms of human damage, judicial treatment and the arsenal deployed, the repression of June-July 2023 is quite simply unprecedented since the Algerian war. (30 words)
Example sentences (5)
In Quebec, the largest province by land area, about 150 fires are active, with most of them out of control, according to the of the Société de Protection des Forêts Contre le Feu, a Quebec non-profit organization.
The Contre Attaque website comments, “In terms of human damage, judicial treatment and the arsenal deployed, the repression of June-July 2023 is quite simply unprecedented since the Algerian war.
In addition, in the spring and summer of the year Proust began work on several different fragments of writing that would later coalesce under the working title of Contre Sainte-Beuve.
The French disliked castrati, preferring their male heroes to be sung by an haute-contre (a high tenor), of which Joseph Legros (1739–1793) was a leading example.
The French had their own names: "Cinquiesme" was a small viola,"Haute Contre" was a large viola and "Taile" meant "Tenor".