Sentence examples for d’arc from high-quality English sources.

• Also, her French teacher nicknamed her Jeanne d’Arc.

• …Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (1962; Trial of Joan of Arc) is as terrifying as any visual effect could be.

• Look at the Pont d’Arc: it’s a great beacon in the landscape.

• Without all the greenery, the resemblance of the Pont d’Arc to a giant mammoth would have been even more dramatic.

• ., Rudolph Maté had a long career as a cinematographer, working on such films as La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928).

• Joan of Arc (in French Jeanne d’Arc) was born in the village of Domrémy, in the Meuse River valley, probably in 1412.

• “What mystic or glandular voices spoke to Mary, bidding her go forth into the world as the Jeanne d’Arc of the Warm Mammas?”

• It was stamped or slapped—just for the fun of it, one hopes—on a wall of the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave, in the Ardèche region of France.

Use d’arc in a sentence.

• In one story, a knife-thrower tricks the narrator into agreeing to perform as his partner (in drag); in another, a man steals a wax head of Jeanne d’Arc.

• He also wrote Le Livre de Christophe Colomb (published 1933), with music by Darius Milhaud, and the oratorio Jeanne d’arc (performed 1938), with music by Arthur Honegger.

• Finally, on the order of Pope Calixtus III following a petition from the d’Arc family, proceedings were instituted in 1455–56 that revoked and annulled the sentence of 1431.

• Artaud played Marat in Abel Gance’s film Napoléon (1927) and appeared as a friar in Carl Dreyer’s classic film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928; The Passion of Joan of Arc).

• La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928; “The Passion of Joan of Arc”), Dreyer’s most famous silent film, was based on the official records of her trial and execution for witchcraft.

• It culminated in another startling a-cappella moment: a rendition of “Prelude to the Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc,” by the avant-garde Black composer Julius Eastman, who died in obscurity in 1990.

• Cave art has been found in many places in Europe, notably at the Lascaux, Eyzies-de-Tayac, Font-de-Gaume, and Chauvet-Pont d’Arc caves, all in southern France, and at the Altamira cave in northern Spain.

• Her last work, Le Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc (written in 1429), is a lyrical, joyous outburst inspired by the early victories of Joan of Arc; it is the only such French-language work written during Joan’s lifetime.

d’arc sentence examples

• During the earliest millennia when cave art was first being made, the species most often represented, as in the Chauvet–Pont-d’Arc cave in France, were the most-formidable ones, now long extinct—cave lions, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, cave bears.

• Monumental arts flourished in western Europe, the province of the so-called Franco-Cantabrian school, where limestone caves—such as those of Chauvet–Pont d’Arc and Lascaux Grotto—provided a sheltered surface for paintings, incised designs, and relief carvings.

• He worked in Berlin and Vienna before moving to France in the late 1920s, where he shot several of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s most important pictures, including La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928; The Passion of Joan of Arc), a silent-film classic, and Vampyr (1932).

• Joan of Arc, byname the Maid of Orléans, French Sainte Jeanne d’Arc or La Pucelle d’Orléans, (born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France—died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May), national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War.