bonjour

Example Sentences

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He could have whispered a simple bonjour through the door in his distinctive gravel.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

She greeted me with warm eyes and a soft bonjour, her long gray hair pulled back behind her head.

From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2015

Not wearing black was a massive trend: Cate Blanchett and Jennifer Lawrence, bonjour!

From Slate • Mar. 3, 2014

He compared the men replying to his messages to "starving piranhas, no bonjour, no pleasantries, it was direct and crude".

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2012

The only word I knew in French was bonjour, which did me no good.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah