Usage examples of "bouts" in French with translation to English

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J'espère pouvoir joindre les deux bouts. I hope I can manage to make both ends meet.
Il a rassemblé des bouts d'informations. He collected bits of information.
Elle a essayé de joindre les deux bouts. She tried to make both ends meet.
Beaucoup de couples en Amérique travaillent à deux pour joindre les deux bouts. Many couples in America both work to make ends meet.
Le coût de la vie a grimpé si rapidement qu'il nous est presque impossible de nouer les deux bouts. The cost of living has risen so quickly that it is almost impossible for us to make both ends meet.
Résider au bout du monde. To live at the end of the world.
Donnez-m'en un bout. Give me a tip.
Nous disposons juste d'un minuscule bout de jardin. We have just a tiny bit of garden.
Il jeta un bout de viande au chien. He threw a piece of meat to a dog.
Vivre au bout du monde. To live at the end of the world.
Donne-m'en un bout. Give me a tip.
Je me suis coupé la main droite sur un bout de verre. I cut my right hand on a piece of glass.
Elle a encaissé jusqu'au bout. She endured to the bitter end.
Il souffla sur le bout de ses doigts. He blew on the tip of his fingers.
Il se tenait au bout de la queue. He stood at the end of the line.
Je l'ai sur le bout de la langue. It's on the tip of my tongue.
Tourne à droite au bout de la rue. Turn right at the end of that street.
J'ai le mot sur le bout de la langue. The word is on the tip of my tongue.
Il se tenait au bout de la file. He stood at the end of the line.
J'avais son nom au bout de la langue mais je ne pouvais m'en souvenir. His name was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember it.
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