Sentence examples of "dépourvu" in French
On donne quelquefois par mépris le nom de bruit à la musique insignifiante et dépourvue de charme.
We sometimes disparagingly call noise, music that's insignificant and devoid of any charm.
Pris au dépourvu, je n'ai pas su quoi répondre.
Taken by surprise, I was at a loss for what to answer.
En toute probabilité, aucun langage n'est complètement dépourvu de mots d'emprunt.
In all probability, no language is completely free of borrowed words.
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