affaire

Example Sentences

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If a non-affaire affaire can elicit this degree of discontent, people are already deeply unhappy, looking for a reason to vent.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018

The startling turnaround in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affaire has nothing to do with what happened May 14 in the now famous Sofitel hotel room 2806.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2011

I did not think an affaire du coeur could be so serious; but now I know it.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John

A notable instance of this was in the memorable affaire between Louis Blanc of L’Homme-Libre and Dujarrier-Beauvallon of La Presse.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

It is the Dreyfus affaire in a Spanish edition.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee