Fort-de-France
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On Tuesday Fort-de-France Mayor Didier Laguerre acknowledged that people in Martinique - a territory of 350,000 people - were struggling: “I understand the suffering and anger.”
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
The fleet is due to arrive in Fort-de-France, Martinique, around Nov. 25.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Texaco takes its name from the shantytown they construct after the war, a sprawl of crate-wood hutches hard by the oil tanks that fuel the capital city of Fort-de-France.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2015
I was schooled during a tour of La Favorite, near the island’s capital, Fort-de-France.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2014
Two months later the little capital of Fort-de-France was swept by the pestilence as by a wind of death.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
