Example Sentences

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Powless dropping off left the 36-year-old Pichon alone in front as he passed two imposing French chateaux and zoomed past the famed port of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Yet he adds that per square metre "chateaux are the cheapest real estate in France", especially when compared to the cost of a Parisian apartment.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2022

The president will recuperate at the presidential chateaux in Lany, just west of Prague.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2021

People have been living in France for a long time—a tres long time, from the looks of it!—and most of that time, they have been building chateaux and literal castles and many, many churches.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2020

The pastureland was green, and there were fine trees, and sometimes big rivers and chateaux off in the trees.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway