French leave
Example Sentences
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My efforts at French leave me at once inert and exhausted, as though I’ve been dog-paddling in a pool of standing water.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
Spain sent Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to make the French leave Florida.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"If the French leave, there will be no protection," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They took French leave and went out on to the warren.
From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela