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Example Sentences

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No se lo conté a nadie hasta años después.

From BBC • May 1, 2018

Chase’s bravura skills, which can look facile in oil paint, are less ingratiating in dry mediums like charcoal and conté crayon.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2013

One side is a conté crayon portrait of a man; “I’ve been researching,” Ms. Phagan said, “but I still haven’t figured out who he is.”

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2011

Who, clad in peach-bloom satin, with lace ruffles and diamond buckles, all golden, a conté fleurettes to his companion?

From The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur

Nhomme-là lévé: y baill moin yon sèle coup d'piè, y voyé moin lautt bo lariviè-ou ouè moin vini pou conté ça ba ou.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio