Sentence examples for it was une from inspiring English sources
It was "une petite idée, just like that," she muses.
It is une scène tranquille.
In the folklore of France, it is une piaf, the argot for sparrow.
By many French, worried and experienced, it is "une sale petite guerre coloniale qui pourrait tourner mal, comme Dien-Bien-Phu".
In the 1939 French film noir "Le Jour Se Lève," for instance, there's a moment when the concierge, pressed by the police about a piece of furniture in the killer's apartment, tells them that it's "une armoire comme toutes les armoires" — "An armoire like all armoires".
His slogan at the last election was "une ville pour tous" ("a town for all") though he now says it should have been "une ville pour tous et toutes", using the feminine form of the word for "all" too.
Casanova was convinced that d'Éon was "une belle femme", and Queen Marie Antoinette lent him her dressmaker.
In his diary, Robespierre noted that what was needed was "une volonté une" ("one single will"), and this dictatorial power was to characterize the Revolutionary government.
Paper allowed Matisse to get back to basics, to return to what mattered: this was "une seconde vie", his second life.
By Ned O'Gorman The New Yorker, October 10 , 1931 P. 15Included on the shopping list of the French chef who comes from Lyon was: Une Raquette to kill fly".
It was called Une Soirée Exclusive.
