devoir
Example Sentences
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Quand le burkini est apparu, j’étais heureuse pour ma sœur, qui était en vacances et pouvait enfin jouer sur la plage avec ses enfants plutôt que de devoir rester à l’ombre.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2016
From the polar heights of Great Neck came the Women's Club thereof, aesthetically accoutered to do their devoir.
From Time Magazine Archive
And having done his devoir thus by the old woman, he springs again into his tax-cart, snatches the reins from Sir Richard, and drives on at a savage pace for town.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
"Quant aux changements qu'on lui a �crit devoir se faire dans le gouvernement, il n'en est pas question."
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them.
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
