Sentence examples of "œuvres" in French

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Il donna tout son argent aux œuvres. He gave away all his money to charity.
Il donna tout son argent aux œuvres de charité. He gave away all his money to charity.
Je fais l'inventaire de mes armoires pour trouver des vêtements à donner aux œuvres. I'm going through my closet to find clothes to give to charity.
Les mesures d'austérité que de nombreuses autorités municipales ont mises en œuvres sont massivement impopulaires. The austerity measures that many city governments have implemented are hugely unpopular.
Les mathématiciens sont des artistes créatifs, leurs œuvres étant des échafaudages élaborés d'idées et des preuves esthétiques. Mathematicians are creative artists, their artworks being sophisticated constructs of ideas and aesthetic proofs.
Il regimba à la suggestion qu'il donne dix pour-cent de son revenu aux œuvres de charité. He balked at the suggestion that he give ten percent of his income to charity.
Des chercheurs ont découvert que des sujets pouvaient collecter deux fois plus de dons pour les œuvres lorsqu'ils portaient des vêtements de marques. Researchers found that subjects could collect double the amount of money for charity when they were wearing clothes with designer logos.
J’ai souvent remarqué que les jeunes filles ne savent pas s’intéresser aux œuvres sérieuses, écrites cependant pour leur bien. Cela me confond, je l’avoue, car rien ne peut leur faire plus de bien qu’une lecture instructive. I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.
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