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

“Someone said to me, ‘We hope they don’t Hagertize everything,’” said Ken Gross, a veteran automotive writer, top-tier concours judge and museum curator.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021

“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

"Une portion considérable de la population et de la garde nationale de Paris sollicite le concours des départements pour le rétablissement de l'ordre."—Circulaire de M. Thiers aux Préfets, le 27 Mars.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.