Montreux

/ (French mɔ̃trø) /

noun

a town and resort in W Switzerland, in Vaud canton on Lake Geneva; annual television festival. Pop: 22 454 (2000)

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Example sentences from the Web for montreux

But any real-reality initiative to end the fighting was left to the negotiators meeting last week in Montreux and now in Geneva.
Income Inequality Was Quickly Forgotten at Davos|Christopher Dickey|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After every visit in these years I left Montreux thinking I might never see Dmitri again.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I now regretted my advice to her and Dmitri, the next time he had come to Montreux, that they should destroy it.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I would see Dmitri most often, when he visited his mother from Monza, in the corridor of the Montreux Palace.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The cure of Montreux in Switzerland, ninety-six years old, still vigorous in mind and body, and able to preach.
Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2|Nathaniel Hawthorne
Those Montreux days seemed years ago instead of a brief six months.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
And she went, in an hour, down to Montreux by the funicular railway, and was lost to the Beau-Site.
The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns|Arnold Bennett
So one day at the end of May they found themselves at Montreux.
Lady Rose's Daughter|Mrs. Humphry Ward
Happily it was dark by the time we found the right road and were drawing into Montreux—dark and raining.
The Car That Went Abroad|Albert Bigelow Paine