Below you will find example sentences with "french army". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
French Army in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: french
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 32 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "french army" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 32 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the french army was routed, bleed the french army white and, france, german and new stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with french president, nigerian army, syrian army, french president, french government and french language, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with french army
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
French paratroopers were used as counter insurgency units by the French Army. (12 words)
Conrad and his adherents had to be escorted to Lopadium by the French, where they joined the main French army under Louis. (22 words)
The French national anthem La Marseillaise and Le Chant des Partisans, the hymn of the Resistance, will be performed by the French Army Chorus. (24 words)
One hundred and forty-six of the company’s 160 men were Spanish and, despite serving in the French army and under a French commanding officer, they were permitted to stitch the red, yellow and purple flag of Spain’s second republic on to their uniforms. (46 words)
On 5 September, another French bombardment (the sixth) was followed by an assault by the French Army on 8 September resulting in the capture of the Malakoff by the French, and following their failure to retake it, the collapse of the Russian defences. (43 words)
France has a warship in the region, while a French helicopter carrier in the eastern Mediterranean in the coming days and take up position in case a decision is taken to evacuate foreign nationals from Lebanon, a French army spokesperson said on Tuesday. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
He expected that with proper tactics, French losses would be greater than those of the Germans and that continued French commitment of troops to Verdun would "bleed the French Army white" and then allow the German army to take France easily.
On 5 September, another French bombardment (the sixth) was followed by an assault by the French Army on 8 September resulting in the capture of the Malakoff by the French, and following their failure to retake it, the collapse of the Russian defences.
Gates (2002). p. 177. The delay allowed the French to withdraw, but Cuesta sent his army headlong after Victor, and found himself faced by almost the entire French army in New Castile—Victor had been reinforced by the Toledo and Madrid garrisons.
Prior to the German offensive in May, Winston Churchill had said "Thank God for the French Army".sfn That same French army collapsed after barely two months of fighting.
The latter had hired a number of veteran French officers - who had served under Emperor Napoleon I and were discharged from the French army following his defeat - to help organise the new army.
With the Prussians breaking through on the French right flank Wellington's Anglo-allied army counter-attacked in the centre, and the French army was routed.
However the French Army and the British Army put up a strong resistance to defend Paris at the First Battle of the Marne resulting in the German Army retreating.
France has a warship in the region, while a French helicopter carrier in the eastern Mediterranean in the coming days and take up position in case a decision is taken to evacuate foreign nationals from Lebanon, a French army spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The French army units in Morocco and Algeria then joined the Free French forces and fought for the Allies up to and including VE Day in May 1945.
One hundred and forty-six of the company’s 160 men were Spanish and, despite serving in the French army and under a French commanding officer, they were permitted to stitch the red, yellow and purple flag of Spain’s second republic on to their uniforms.
The French national anthem La Marseillaise and Le Chant des Partisans, the hymn of the Resistance, will be performed by the French Army Chorus.
They had reached the sea and were the tip of huge panzer corridor that divided the First French Army and the BEF from French forces south of the Somme.
A French military helicopter crashed in Côte d’Ivoire while on a training mission, killing the pilot and seriously wounding a second crew member, the French army said on Wednesday.
At the age of seventeen, Juan Moreno moved to France, where he studied acting in the Cours Simon School of Drama. citation When Moreno moved to France he served in the French Army which was mandatory to gain his French citizenship.
Before Napoleon's efforts, Lazare Carnot played a large part in the reorganisation of the French army from 1793 to 1794—a time which saw previous French misfortunes reversed, with Republican armies advancing on all fronts.
But when he realized the size of the French army at the gates of Pisa, he had to accept the humiliating conditions of the French king.
Conrad and his adherents had to be escorted to Lopadium by the French, where they joined the main French army under Louis.
French paratroopers were used as counter insurgency units by the French Army.
He reveals evidence that his father knows of an impending French invasion designed to reinstate Lear to the throne; and in fact a French army has landed in Britain.
In late October he complained that the Allies were failing to adequately arm and equip the new French army and instructed Bidault to use the French veto at the European Council.