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Examples

  • "Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • "Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.

    Carte de Fidelite - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I had been upstairs folding clothes when I heard the excited aboiements* ... which I thought to be coming from the field, where hunting season is underway; of the barking, I remember thinking: "les chiens de chasse ont dû trouver leur proie".

    une plaie - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • For Racine's most famous couplet, "Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée/C'est Vénus toute entière à sa proie attachée," Hughes has the less memorable "No longer a fever in my veins, Venus has fastened on me like a tiger."

    Helen Mirren Breathes Passion 2009

  • Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • "Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.

    oeuvre - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • I had been upstairs folding clothes when I heard the excited aboiements*... which I thought to be coming from the field, where hunting season is underway; of the barking, I remember thinking: "les chiens de chasse ont dû trouver leur proie".

    une plaie - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ("Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

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