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
The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If the French leave, there will be no protection," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been sent on an errand from Sisterhood House to the nearest village, and rather than return had simply—as she expressed it—"taken French leave."
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
