réclame

Example Sentences

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Cependant, ne vous gênez pas, je vous prie, en répondant à une lettre qui ne vaut—qui ne réclame pas même—aucune réponse: tandis que vous me croyez votre très dévoué Edouard de Petitgrange.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Wright, William Aldis

Instead of terrorizing the Parisians the Zeppelin raids have merely roused a vivid sense of sportsmanship and curiosity among them—at first they had a real réclame!

From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert

This method of calling attention to the merits of wares was a French one—a sort of réclame introduced by Villemessant in his journal La Sylphide. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington

La convergence de causes indifférentes qui réalisent d'une manière harmonieuse et persistante un même objet ordonné, ne s'explique point par des coincidences fortuites; elle réclame un principe interne de convergence.”—Ibid.,

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

On literary réclame, he says much that is true—if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame.'

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George