Sentence examples of "ombre" in French

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Translations: all14 shadow13 shade1
Une ombre plane sur moi. There's a shadow hanging over me.
Et quand il était fatigué, il dormait à son ombre. And when he was tired, he would sleep in her shade.
Elle a peur de son ombre. She is afraid of her own shadow.
Il a peur de son ombre. He is afraid of his own shadow.
Les événements à venir projettent leur ombre. Coming events cast their shadows before.
J'ai vu une ombre bouger derrière cet arbre ! I saw a shadow move behind that tree!
Il n'y a pas de lumière sans ombre. There's no light without a shadow.
Le souci donne souvent une grande ombre à une petite chose. Worry often gives a small thing a large shadow.
Le souci dote souvent une petite chose d'une grande ombre. Worry often gives a small thing a large shadow.
La vie n'est qu'une ombre qui marche, un pauvre acteur qui s'agite et parade une heure sur la scène, puis qu'on n'entend plus. C'est un récit raconté par un idiot, plein de bruit et de fureur, qui n'a aucun sens. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Leurs deux ombres se superposent. Their two shadows overlap.
Quand le soleil de la culture est bas, même les nains projettent de longues ombres. When the sun of culture is low, even dwarfs will cast long shadows.
Ces ombres apparurent en quelque sorte comme un dinosaure géant, au long cou et à la mâchoire très grosse, sans dents. Those shadows appeared in a way like giant dinosaurs, with a long neck and a very big jaw without teeth.
Il y a toujours eu une minorité ayant peur de quelque chose et une grande majorité ayant peur de l'obscurité, de l'avenir, du passé, du présent, d'eux-mêmes et de leurs propres ombres. There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
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