concours

Example Sentences

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Earlier this year, I was invited to show the BMW at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, arguably the world’s most prestigious car concours.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

“I think of my life,” Justus Rosenberg once told an interviewer, “as what the French call concours de circonstances — a confluence of circumstances.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

“It’s a serious collection,” said Peter Hageman, a Kirkland-based car collector, dealer and concours judge specializing in Bentleys.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2018

The concours event filled with priceless classics that were, amazingly, not fenced off from the attendees — want a selfie with a Lamborghini Miura?

From The Verge • Aug. 28, 2016

It seems to me that putting Shakespere aside as hors concours, not merely in degree but in kind, only two English poets can challenge Spenser for the primacy.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George