Explore Maupassant through 10+ example sentences from English and related words like writer or author. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Maupassant in a sentence
Using Maupassant
- Useful related words include: guy de maupassant, writer, author.
- In the example corpus, maupassant often appears in combinations such as: de maupassant, maupassant was, maupassant is.
Context around Maupassant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Maupassant
- In this selection, "maupassant" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bayard, used, significance, juste, france and continued stand out and add context to how "maupassant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include guy de maupassant and gustave de maupassant both from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "maupassant" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with maupassant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The most prolific French author of short stories was Guy de Maupassant. (12 words)
Significance Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. (13 words)
The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. (13 words)
Biography Guy de Maupassant 7 years old Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born 5 August 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil (Castle Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime ) department in France. (37 words)
At age thirteen, his mother next placed her two sons as day boarders in a private school, the Institution Leroy-Petit, in Rouen—the Institution Robineau of Maupassant's story La Question du Latin—for classical studies. (37 words)
Among others, pioneering role in founding the rules of the genre in the Western canon have: Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom), Anton Chekhov (Russia), Guy de Maupassant (France), Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Mexico) and Rubén Darío (Nicaragua). (35 words)
Example sentences (15)
Pierre Bayard, Maupassant, juste avant Freud (Paris: Minuit, 1998) Legacy Leo Tolstoy used Maupassant as the subject for one of his essays on art: The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
Biography Guy de Maupassant 7 years old Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born 5 August 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil (Castle Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime ) department in France.
Among others, pioneering role in founding the rules of the genre in the Western canon have: Rudyard Kipling (United Kingdom), Anton Chekhov (Russia), Guy de Maupassant (France), Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Mexico) and Rubén Darío (Nicaragua).
At age thirteen, his mother next placed her two sons as day boarders in a private school, the Institution Leroy-Petit, in Rouen—the Institution Robineau of Maupassant's story La Question du Latin—for classical studies.
Flaubert's correspondence with George Sand was published in 1884 with an introduction by Guy de Maupassant.
Guy de Maupassant 's story "Le docteur Héraclius Gloss" (1875) is a fable about metempsychosis.
He was the first son of Laure Le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant, both from prosperous bourgeois families.
His editor, Havard, commissioned him to write more stories, and Maupassant continued to produce them efficiently and frequently.
Masculin, féminin (1966), based on two Guy de Maupassant stories, La Femme de Paul and Le Signe, was a study of contemporary French youth and their involvement with cultural politics.
Maupassant is also one of the writers on whom Richard Larch, the protagonist of Bennett's first (and obviously semi-autobiographical) novel, A Man from the North, tries in vain to model his own writing.
Significance Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story.
The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
The decade from 1880 to 1891 was the most fertile period of Maupassant's life.
The most prolific French author of short stories was Guy de Maupassant.
This was Maupassant's first piece of short fiction set during the Franco-Prussian War, and was followed by short stories such as " Deux Amis ", " Mother Savage ", and " Mademoiselle Fifi ".
Common combinations with maupassant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- de maupassant 10×
- maupassant was 2×
- maupassant is 2×