Sentence examples of "foyer" in French

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Il dirigea ses pensées vers son foyer. He turned his thoughts toward home.
Règle le foyer du microscope. Adjust the microscope's focus.
Il a passé la nuit dans un foyer pour sans-abris. He spent the night in a homeless hostel.
Les hommes bâtissent, les femmes font les foyers Men make houses but women make homes
La pauvreté rassemble plus de foyers qu'elle n'en détruit. Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Elle a tiré sa force des jeunes qui ont rejeté le mythe de l'apathie de leur génération, qui ont quitté leurs foyers et leurs familles pour des boulots qui offraient de maigres salaires et moins de sommeil. It drew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy, who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
Je suis femme au foyer. I am a housewife.
"George ?" dit la femme au foyer. "Qui est George ?" "George?" said the housewife. "Who's George?"
Il n'a pas de foyer. He has no house to live in.
Une mauvaise épouse fait le naufrage du foyer. A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.
J'ai confié à ma femme les finances du foyer. I entrusted my wife with the family finances.
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