Get to know Essai better with 9 real example sentences.
Using Essai
- In the example corpus, essai often appears in combinations such as: an essai, essai sur.
Context around Essai
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Essai
- In this selection, "essai" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sur, les and art stand out and add context to how "essai" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include appended an essai sur la and art et essai art house. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "essai" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with essai
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
When the air-raid sirens are tested, the message "proefsignaal" or "signal d'essai" is pronounced every time the sirens work. (21 words)
In his Essai sur les moeurs Voltaire had denounced the ancient Hebrews using strong language; a Catholic priest had protested against this censure. (23 words)
Diderot had appended an Essai sur la peinture to his report on the 1765 Salon in which he expressed his views on artistic beauty. (24 words)
Club d'Essai and Cinq études de bruits Following Schaeffer's work with Studio d'Essai at Radiodiffusion Nationale during the early 1940s he was credited with originating the theory and practice of musique concrète. (35 words)
These four productions, with other occasional sermons, were in 1760 republished collectively, in three volumes, at Amsterdam, and preceded by an Essai historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Abbadie. (32 words)
George Sand has written an essai, "Les Charmettes" (1865. Printed in the same volume as "Laura" from the same year) in which she explains why Rousseau may have accused himself falsely. (31 words)
Example sentences (9)
Club d'Essai and Cinq études de bruits Following Schaeffer's work with Studio d'Essai at Radiodiffusion Nationale during the early 1940s he was credited with originating the theory and practice of musique concrète.
Diderot had appended an Essai sur la peinture to his report on the 1765 Salon in which he expressed his views on artistic beauty.
Essai de rhétorique réformée, Paris: H. Champion 1992 p. 522, noting a typological rather than a biographical perspective of the account of his conversion.
George Sand has written an essai, "Les Charmettes" (1865. Printed in the same volume as "Laura" from the same year) in which she explains why Rousseau may have accused himself falsely.
In his Essai sur les moeurs Voltaire had denounced the ancient Hebrews using strong language; a Catholic priest had protested against this censure.
New book length studies were not published until the 1990s however, nearly a hundred years after Stéphane Gsell 's Essai sur le règne de l'empereur Domitien (1894).
There is also miscellaneous cultural places: the dance dedicated place the Triange, two "Art et Essai" - art house cinemas - cinemas called l'Arvor and Cine TNB.
These four productions, with other occasional sermons, were in 1760 republished collectively, in three volumes, at Amsterdam, and preceded by an Essai historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. Abbadie.
When the air-raid sirens are tested, the message "proefsignaal" or "signal d'essai" is pronounced every time the sirens work.
Common combinations with essai
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an essai 3×
- essai sur 3×