concours

Example Sentences

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Just to have a car at this concours is an honor.

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

Some customers want perfect concours restorations; others want upgraded hot rods.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 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

In the French schools there are monthly concours, when men compete for prizes with work, and their success is influenced by a previous concour of these composition sketches.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh