Sentence examples for or blanche from inspiring English sources

Did Dorothy marry — or Blanche remarry — taking on new names?

Normally the names aren't anything flashy like "Dorothy" or "Rose" or "Blanche" or "Sophia" but rather are a combination of numbers and letters that describe their location.

Or carte blanche access to the fridge?

The German military described her as "la souris blanche," or "the white mouse," for her ability to elude capture.

The litmus test of seriousness is, when the spot is pressed, does it blanche or stay red?

In the 17th century Lyon's output seems to have consisted almost entirely of drug jars and faience blanche, or plain white faience.

Soon you see tile roofs and wooden shutters, balconies and colonnades, wide brick streets and pastel Catholic churches — the neighborhood once known as the Ville Blanche, or White Town, where the colonists lived.

As Froome pedalled round the arch, wearing a specially designed yellow jersey dolled up in sequins to glitter in the night lights, the smoke from the red, white and blue vapour trails left by a flypast of la patrouille blanche, or White Patrol – the French equivalent of the Red Arrows – was slowly dissipating in the balmy breeze.

Bioethicists usually frown upon letting patients grant so-calledcarte blanche, or general consent, to whatever the physician considers appropriate for them (Dworkin 1988, e.g., 125 6).

Appoint a special prosecutor such as Fitzgerald, armed to the teeth, and give him or her carte blanche.

Perhaps they were given too much carte blanche or the modest challenge of presenting two parallel storylines sucked up all their energy.