Sentence examples of "coupaient" in French
Par une chaude après-midi d'été, Tony, John et Pip coupaient les hautes herbes.
One hot summer afternoon, John and Dan were cutting the long grass.
Deux hommes ont eu leurs bras coupés à Taiwan dans un accident de souque à la corde.
Two men had their arms severed in Taiwan after a tug-of-war accident.
Couper les ailes d'un oiseau semble une chose cruelle.
It seems a cruel thing to clip a bird's wings.
Je les soupçonne de couper la bière avec de l'eau dans ce bistro.
I suspect they water down the beer in that pub.
À vrai dire, je voulais être une damoiselle, dans une tour gardée par sept dragons, et alors un prince sur un cheval blanc aurait coupé la tête des dragons et m'aurait délivrée.
Actually I wanted to be a damsel in a tower guarded by seven dragons, and then a prince on a white horse would chop off the dragons' heads and liberate me.
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