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

You are right; this affaire is killing me.

From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite

He jumped up, pointed to the page, and cried out, "Voila mon affaire!"

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

As before said, the Maquet affaire was a most complicated one, and it shall have no lengthy consideration here.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)