Sentence examples for lac in from inspiring English sources

Its origin is French – laque en écailles – literally meaning lac in thin plates.

I thought of the last page of "Swann's Way": The wind that "wrinkled the surface of the Grand Lac in little wavelets, like a real lake".

The road, this over-beaten track, begins not far from Fond du Lac, in the land of Milkfat where the cheeses lie.

The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel "Hotel du Lac," in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him.

And then the scene shifts again, from the thin blue skies above Mexico's open velodrome and back down to sea level, to the Velodrome Bordeaux Lac in one of France's greatest cities.

The next section of this paper explores the evolution of LAC in terms of its demographic and epidemiological transitions.

Champex-Lac, in Valais, will provide a picture-postcard setting this winter.

On Dec. 6, 1967, near Phuoc-Lac in S. Vietnam, a US Army company on a search-and-destroy mission came under sudden withering enemy fire.

The New Yorker, October 13 , 1986P. 35 On Dec. 6, 1967, near Phuoc-Lac in S. Vietnam, a US Army company on a search-and-destroy mission came under sudden withering enemy fire.

Thus, the recovery of the tracer from C-lac in breath was both more rapid and more complete than any of the carbohydrate sources in G (Figures 5 7).

While p-lac in the ECF arm re-elevated, that in the HbV arm decreased steadily.