Sentence examples of "tomber en poussière" in French

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Enlève la poussière de tes chaussures. Brush off the dust from your shoes.
L'automne arriva et les feuilles se mirent à tomber. Autumn came and the leaves started to fall.
Sur les dictionnaires il n'y a que de la poussière, en tout cas sur les miens. On the dictionaries there's nothing but dust, at least on mine.
Elle le laissa tomber pour un homme plus jeune. She dumped him for a younger man.
C'était tout couvert de poussière. It was all covered with dust.
J'ai promis d'aller à la fête avec Jane, et je ne peux pas la laisser tomber. I promised to go to the party with Jane, and I can't let her down.
C'est sec comme la poussière. It's dry as dust.
Newton a vu une pomme tomber d'un arbre. Newton saw an apple fall off a tree.
Il se pensait comme une tache de poussière dans un univers immensément vaste. He thought of himself as a speck of dust in an immensely vast universe.
J'ai laissé tomber mon poste. I gave up my job.
J'ai une poussière dans l'œil. Dust got into one of my eyes.
Il promit de m'aider, mais à la dernière minute me laissa tomber. He promised to help me, but at the last minute he let me down.
J'ai aspiré la poussière du plancher avec un aspirateur. I sucked up the dust on the floor with a vacuum cleaner.
Une averse commença à tomber. A heavy rain began to fall.
La voiture souleva un nuage de poussière. The car raised a cloud of dust.
Je me suis fermement tenu à la corde pour ne pas tomber. I held on to the rope tightly so I wouldn't fall.
Le bureau est recouvert de poussière. The desk is covered with dust.
Laisse tomber. Forget it.
La machine était recouverte de poussière. The machine was coated with dust.
Vint l'automne et les feuilles se mirent à tomber. Autumn came and the leaves started to fall.
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