Sentence examples of "jeté l'ancre" in French

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Le bateau a jeté l'ancre. The ship dropped anchor.
Le navire a jeté l'ancre dans le port. The ship is at anchor in the harbor.
Le bateau a jeté l'ancre près de la rive. The boat anchored near the shore.
J'ai jeté une pierre en direction de l'oiseau. I threw a stone at the bird.
Il a jeté de nombreuses vieilles lettres. He threw away a bunch of old letters.
J'ai jeté mon chien sur mon lit. I tossed my dog onto my bed.
Il devrait être jeté en prison. He should be put in prison.
Il a jeté une pierre dans l'étang. He cast a stone into the pond.
Al Capone fut finalement jeté en prison pour évasion fiscale. Al Capone was finally sent away for tax evasion.
La langue française, d’ailleurs, est une eau pure que les écrivains maniérés n’ont jamais pu et ne pourront jamais troubler. Chaque siècle a jeté dans ce courant limpide ses modes, ses archaïsmes prétentieux et ses préciosités, sans que rien surnage de ces tentatives inutiles, de ces efforts impuissants. La nature de cette langue est d’être claire, logique et nerveuse. Elle ne se laisse pas affaiblir, obscurcir ou corrompre. The French language, by the way, is a clear stream that affected writers have never been, and will never be able to ripple. Each century has thrown in this limpid current its fashions, its pretentious archaisms and its preciousness, without anything surfacing from those useless attempts, those powerless efforts. The nature of this language is to be clear, logical and nervous. It won't let itself be weakened, obscured or corrupted.
Elle a retiré son anneau et le lui a jeté. She took her ring off and threw it at him.
Il a jeté le grand homme par terre. He threw the big man down.
Le guitariste s'est jeté dans la foule. The guitarist threw himself into the crowd.
Il a jeté l'éponge. He threw in the towel.
Le 18 mai, un jeune couple japonais fut arrêté après que leur bébé d'un an ait été trouvé emballé dans un sac plastique et jeté dans une gouttière. On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.
Le garçon a jeté une pierre. The boy threw a stone.
Elle a timidement jeté un regard au jeune homme. She glanced shyly at the young man.
Elle a brièvement jeté un coup d'œil au journal. She glanced briefly at the newspaper.
J'ai jeté mon filet dans la mer. I cast my net into the sea.
La sorcière a jeté un sort sur le méchant garçon. The witch cast a spell on the naughty boy.
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