concours

Example Sentences

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Just to have a car at this concours is an honor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

“I think of my life,” Justus Rosenberg once told an interviewer, “as what the French call concours de circonstances — a confluence of circumstances.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

“It’s a serious collection,” said Peter Hageman, a Kirkland-based car collector, dealer and concours judge specializing in Bentleys.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2018

But the vintage car market took off in the 1980s, said Phil Tegtmeier, a Ferrari broker and concours judge from Bryn Mawr, Pa. “‘

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

On some occasions, when the concours of the public is too great to be accommodated within the building itself, the whole of the front and sides of the temple are thrown open.

From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage