French leave
Example Sentences
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On Friday hundreds of people, many waving Russian flags, marched toward France’s military base demanding the French leave.
From Washington Times
On Friday hundreds of people marched toward France’s military base demanding the French leave while waving Russian flags.
From Seattle Times
Siaka Coulibaly, an analyst with Burkina Faso’s Center for Public Policy Monitoring by Citizens, warned of a “severe degradation of security” if the French leave, because African armies aren’t ready to fill the void.
From Washington Times
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
The Islamist insurgents attacked the northern city of Timbuktu for the second time in a fortnight last week, promising to "open the gates of hell," when the French leave.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
