Sentence examples of "mais" in French with translation "only"

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Tom a travaillé fort, mais a échoué à l'examen. Tom worked hard only to fail the exam.
Il a fait de son mieux mais il a encore perdu. He did his best only to fail again.
Non seulement je lui ai donné un conseil, mais je lui ai aussi fait un cunnilingus. I not only gave her some advice, I also gave her a cunnilingus.
Un motel ressemble à un hôtel, mais c'est plus petit et utilisé principalement par des gens qui voyagent en voiture. A motel is like a hotel only much smaller and is used mostly by people traveling by automobile.
Ferdinand Magellan fut le premier homme à traverser à la voile tous les méridiens du monde, mais la seule raison qui le lui permit, c'est que Christophe Colomb avait choisi de le faire à la nage. The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.
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