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

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En Inde, la vache est un animal sacré. In India the cow is a sacred animal.
Comme le Coran sacré nous l'enseigne, "Soyez conscient de Dieu et dites toujours la vérité." As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth."
Le silence est d'or. Il n'est pas sacré. Silence is golden, not sacred.
Et quand le premier musulman américain a été récemment élu au Congrès, il a prêté serment de défendre notre constitution en utilisant le même Coran sacré que l'un de nos pères fondateurs - Thomas Jefferson - conservait dans sa bibliothèque personnelle. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
Un rite sacré s'est déroulé dans le magnifique temple. A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.
Les vaches sont, pour les Hindous, des animaux sacrés. Cows are, for Hindus, sacred animals.
Les chats étaient des animaux sacrés dans l'Égypte antique. Cats were sacred animals in ancient Egypt.
Tatoeba : Où l'attention au détail est sacrée et la sanction prompte. Tatoeba: Where attention to detail is sacred, and punishment is swift.
Vous êtes un sacré coco. You're a jolly good feller.
T'es un sacré coco. You're a jolly good feller.
Quel sacré veinard. Regarde sa copine ! He's such a happy camper. Look at his girlfriend!
Christophe Colomb n'aimait pas les bordels espagnols, qu'il jugeait sales et trop chers. Au lieu de ça, il prenait la mer, se laissait attirer -volontairement- par les chants des sirènes, et ensuite prenait du sacré bon temps. Christopher Columbus disliked Spanish brothels, as he found them dirty and too expensive. Instead, he would go out to sea, get lured in - on purpose - by the Siren's song, and then have a rocking good time.
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