s'il vous plaît
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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Jim, if you’re out there, levez-vous, s’il vous plaît.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
By Posted Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 1:26 PM ET Where, s’il vous plaît, is the Brigitte Bardot of today?
From Slate • Jan. 24, 2013
And I spent the first few days of that course actually saying, "répétez s'il vous plaît, répétez s'il vous plaît," asking the instructors to please repeat what they were saying.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2012
I checked myself on the point of replying, pretended to falter, and then muttered in the worst French I could devise on the spur of the moment: “Parlez-vous Anglais, s’il vous plaît, Madame?”
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen
One by one they rushed their horses past, Private le Tocq exclaiming as he went by, lying across his saddle, 'Dépêchez-vous, s'il vous plaît, monsieur!'
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis
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