Example Sentences

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France won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship in 2000, but has spent the past eighteen years Gallically declining to win anything.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 8, 2018

I thought it might add a sense of Gallic insouciance to my look – and who doesn’t want to look Gallically insouciant?

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017

Now, this brilliant, honest, but Gallically humorless woman, who in The Second Sex denied even the facts of life, confronts the fact of death.

From Time Magazine Archive