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
I woot wel ther is degree above degree, as reson is; and skile it is that men do hir devoir ther-as is due; but certes, extorciouns and despit of youre underlinges is dampnable.”
From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.
"You could not compose the devoir of 'La Première Femme Savante'?"
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
Nul ne peut, pour cause d'opinion religieuse, s'affranchir de l'accomplissement d'un devoir civique.
From The New Irish Constitution by Morgan, J. H.
