Usage examples of "jeu de mots" in French with translation to English

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C’est un jeu de mots. This is a pun.
Le rugby est un jeu de plein air. Rugby is an outdoor game.
La ville était envahie de mots étrangers inconnus. The town was flooded with strange foreign words.
Place le jeu de cartes sur la table en bois de chêne. Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.
Nous avons besoin d'actes, pas de mots. We need actions, not words.
Ma seule distraction est le jeu de go. Playing go is my only recreation.
Elle connaît dix fois plus de mots anglais que moi. She knows ten times more English words than me.
La roulette est un jeu de hasard. Roulette is a game of chance.
À la manière des fats, il larde ses phrases de mots anglais mal digérés. Une sorte de dandy raté, auquel il manquerait la classe. In the style of conceited people, he lards his sentences with ill-digested English words. A kind of failed dandy, deprived of class.
Elle a un bon jeu de jambes. She has good footwork.
Je viens d'inventer un nouveau processeur de mots permettant de les prononcer à l'envers. I just invented a new word-processor enabling to pronounce them backwards.
Tout le monde joue au jeu de l'amour. Everybody plays the game of love.
Combien de mots anglais connais-tu ? How many English words do you know?
Mon passe-temps favori est le jeu de go. Playing go is my favorite pastime.
De tous les hommes que j'ai rencontrés, il peut comprimer le plus de mots dans les plus petites idées. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Quel est votre jeu de course préféré ? What's your favorite racing game?
Il y a des choses dans ce monde qui ne peuvent simplement pas être exprimées sous forme de mots. There are things in this world which simply cannot be expressed in the form of words.
Nous jouâmes à un amusant jeu de charades après dîner. We played an entertaining game of charades after dinner.
Le dictionnaire contient approximativement 2 millions de mots. There are approximately 2 million words in a dictionary.
Chaque fois que je rejoins un jeu de Warcraft, je suis opposé à une nouvelle équipe d'adversaires. Every time I join a new game of Warcraft, I am pitted against a new team of adversaries.
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