Gustave
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He has approvingly quoted Gustave Flaubert’s line that by “gazing down into the black pit at one’s feet, one remains calm.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Greens member of parliament Steevy Gustave said he felt like a "robot" repeating the same thing every day.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
In a well-reported case last year, a group of feminist artist-activists vandalised a 19th-Century painting of a woman's vulva by French artist Gustave Courbet, calling it misogynistic.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Whether French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte was gay is not known, although it is frequently noted that he never married.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
The young aristocrat and his friend Gustave de Beaumont had been dispatched by their government in 1831 with the specific mission of examining America’s rumored-to-be-innovative prisons.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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