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Dictionary translations for "de longue haleine"

de longue haleine adjective

de longue haleine / de longue haleine / de longue haleine / de longue haleine

long-drawn-out (locution adjectivale, invariable, attributif, caractéristique temporelle - durée)

Phrases with "de longue haleine" (1)

travail de longue haleine - long and exacting task

Contexts with "de longue haleine"

Soudainement, je vis deux silhouettes : l'une d'un petit homme qui marchait d'un bon pas lourd en direction de l'est et l'autre d'une fille de peut-être huit ou dix ans qui courait à perdre haleine au long d'une rue de traverse. All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.

Il se dressa et prit une longue inspiration. He stood up and took a deep breath.

Jour après jour, les journaux à sensation tenaient le public en haleine avec des détails salaces sur l'infidélité conjugale du président. Day after day the tabloids titillated the public with lurid details about the president's marital infidelity.

La vie est une route très, très longue. Life is a long, long road.

Ta grammaire est meilleure que ton haleine ! Your grammar is better than your breath.

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