affaire

Example Sentences

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If a non-affaire affaire can elicit this degree of discontent, people are already deeply unhappy, looking for a reason to vent.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2018

The startling turnaround in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affaire has nothing to do with what happened May 14 in the now famous Sofitel hotel room 2806.

From Time • Jul. 2, 2011

In the affaire Dreyfus he sided with M. Zola.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various

An "affaire d'honneur" originated from this, and the parties met this morning.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt