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Queneau in a sentence

Using Queneau

  • In the example corpus, queneau often appears in combinations such as: and queneau.

Context around Queneau

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 18.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

met 1× 1960 1× 1930 1× career 1×

Often after:

came 1× separated 1× spent 1× mostly 1× became 1×

Sentence patterns with Queneau

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

1930 34 queneau mostly wrote 1× after queneau came back 1× by 1930 queneau separated himself 1× career queneau spent much 1× difficult for queneau to avoid 1× in 1960 queneau was attracted 1× in queneau s mind 1× leiris and queneau became friends 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a common friend 1× after queneau came 1× before he founded 1× by 1930 queneau 1× career queneau spent 1× for boris souvarine 1×

Common sentence endings:

and the surrealists 1× bataille s documents 1× brought him over 1× janine in 1928 1× predetermined perhaps calculated 1× reader in 1938 1×

Words around Queneau

Just before it in the word index:

quene 3 quenching 42 quenches 6 quencher 9 quenched 29 quench 80

Just after it in the word index:

quennell 3 quenneville 24 quent 20 quente 2 quenten 2 quentin 254

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 14 aamer 14 aave 14 abadan 14 abdelmadjid 14 abdulkarim 14

Corpus analysis for Queneau

  • In this selection, "queneau" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, met, 1960, 1930, came, separated and spent stand out and add context to how "queneau" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1930 34 queneau mostly wrote and after queneau came back. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "queneau" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with queneau

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

By 1930, Queneau separated himself significantly from Breton and the Surrealists. (11 words)

Leiris and Queneau became friends later while writing for Bataille's Documents. (12 words)

For Boris Souvarine 's La Critique sociale (1930–34), Queneau mostly wrote brief reviews. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

In Queneau's mind, elements of a text, including seemingly trivial details such as the number of chapters, were things that had to be predetermined, perhaps calculated. (27 words)

After Queneau came back from the army, around 1926-7, he and Leiris met at the Café Certa, near L'Opera, a Surrealist hang-out. (25 words)

Before he founded the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo) in 1960, Queneau was attracted to mathematics as a source of inspiration. (21 words)

Example sentences (10)

A common friend, Roland Tual, met Queneau on a train from Le Havre and brought him over.

After Queneau came back from the army, around 1926-7, he and Leiris met at the Café Certa, near L'Opera, a Surrealist hang-out.

Before he founded the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo) in 1960, Queneau was attracted to mathematics as a source of inspiration.

By 1930, Queneau separated himself significantly from Breton and the Surrealists.

Career Queneau spent much of his life working for the Gallimard publishing house, where he began as a reader in 1938.

For Boris Souvarine 's La Critique sociale (1930–34), Queneau mostly wrote brief reviews.

In Queneau's mind, elements of a text, including seemingly trivial details such as the number of chapters, were things that had to be predetermined, perhaps calculated.

It would have been difficult for Queneau to avoid Simone, however, since he married her sister, Janine, in 1928.

Leiris and Queneau became friends later while writing for Bataille's Documents.

The year that Breton left Simone, she sometimes traveled around France with her sister and Queneau.

Common combinations with queneau

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

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