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Example Sentences

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No se lo conté a nadie hasta años después.

From BBC • May 1, 2018

Chase’s bravura skills, which can look facile in oil paint, are less ingratiating in dry mediums like charcoal and conté crayon.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2013

One side is a conté crayon portrait of a man; “I’ve been researching,” Ms. Phagan said, “but I still haven’t figured out who he is.”

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2011

Who, clad in peach-bloom satin, with lace ruffles and diamond buckles, all golden, a conté fleurettes to his companion?

From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur

On m'a conté qu'ils ont été abattus par un empereur dans une circonstance où, prisonnier du Turc, il courut risque de la vie.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard