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

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Je me suis endormi en faisant mes devoirs. I fell asleep while I was doing my homework.
La rue grouillait de gens faisant leurs courses. The street was bustling with shoppers.
Il a essayé de récupérer son manque de sommeil en faisant un somme. He tried to make up for his lack of sleep by taking a nap.
Rien ne fait l'effet de meilleur antidote à l'amour que de jeunes hommes et femmes faisant ensemble de la géométrie à huit heures chaque matin. Nothing acts as a better antidote for romance than young men and women doing geometry together at eight o'clock every morning.
J'ai cassé un verre en faisant la vaisselle. I broke a glass when I did the dishes.
Il l'a trompé en lui faisant croire que c'était vrai. He cheated her into believing it was true.
En faisant n'importe quoi, faites de votre mieux. In doing anything, do your best.
Pour faire découvrir la langue internationale, on devrait écrire en faisant ressortir chaque lexie. In order to unveil the international language, each lexical item should be written separately.
Il est mort en faisant ce qu'il aimait. He died doing what he loved.
Le soldat a continué en faisant comme s'il n'avait pas été blessé. The soldier carried on as if his wound was nothing.
Elle ne voulait pas blesser quelqu'un en faisant cette remarque. She didn't mean to offend anyone with her remark.
C'est la première fois que je vois un film me faisant aussi peur. This is the first time I've seen such a dreadful movie.
Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché. Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.
Élever son nom dans les générations à venir et, ce faisant, glorifier ses parents, voilà la plus grande expression de la piété filiale. To raise one's name in later generations and thereby glorify one's parents, this is the greatest expression of filial piety.
En faisant la lessive, elle trouva une capote dans la poche arrière du pantalon de son fils. While doing the wash she found a condom in the back pocket of her son's pants.
Avec Tatoeba en version Android, on pourra traduire Flaubert tout en faisant l'amour, ouvrant ainsi la voie à des niveaux de plaisir jusqu'alors inexplorés... With the Android version of Tatoeba, we'll be able to translate Flaubert while making love, opening the path to so far unexplored levels of pleasure.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
L'équipage de Christophe Colomb s'est souvent plaint qu'il saturait la connexion wifi du navire pour s'adonner à des jeux en ligne, mais il réfuta ces accusations avec indignation, en faisant valoir qu'il recherchait des îles lointaines qu'ils devaient encore découvrir à l'époque. His crew members often complained of Christopher Columbus's hogging of their vessel's Wifi connection to play online games, but he denied these accusations with indignation, claiming that he was researching faraway lands that they had yet to discover.
Si vous ne transpirez pas en faisant des exercices de cardio, c'est que vous ne les faites pas assez intensivement. If you're not sweating when you do cardio, then you're not doing it hard enough.
En cette époque démocratique qui est la nôtre, les hommes réclament ce qui est majoritairement considéré comme étant le meilleur, faisant abstraction de leurs affections. Ils veulent ce qui est cher plutôt que ce qui est raffiné, ce qui est à la mode plutôt que ce qui est beau. In this democratic age of ours men clamour for what is popularly considered the best, regardless of their feelings. They want the costly, not the refined; the fashionable, not the beautiful.
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