eclat
Example Sentences
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Nonetheless, France did manage a few moments of éclat et élan in that semifinal, and none were more breathtaking than Kylian Mbappé’s backheel.
From Slate • Jul. 14, 2018
The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2017
Now I remembered a line from Walt Whitman: “As I walk, solitary, unattended, around me I hear that éclat of the world.”
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2013
She didn’t create the financial bubble but she soared on it, profited from it, merged its fantasy of wealth and éclat with hers.
From Time • Jul. 25, 2013
His tail is always cut off to make him resemble a bear, and give an air of greater éclat to the caravan that owns him.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
Vocabulary lists containing eclat
English Words Derived from French, List 9
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Eight Cousins
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The Last of the Mohicans
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