Sentence examples for the merde from inspiring English sources

"Truly he puts the Merde in Murdstone.

Mind the merde: why can't French cities clean up after their dogs?

Before the merde really hit the paddle, there was also apparent support for Oldfield from the Olympic legend Sir Matthew Pinsent, an umpire during the disrupted race.

"Breteau is an idealist, ready put everyone in the merde," said Jean-François Tavira, recruited by Zoe's Ark to pilot the plane, while the presiding judge described the pair's absence as an act of "grand cowardice".

Several recent English-language books have put the Gallic nation under the microscope, from the polemical ("Our Oldest Enemy" by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky; "The Arrogance of the French" by Richard Z. Chesnoff) to the fictional ("A Year in the Merde" by Stephen Clarke).

As the carmakers' half-year figures start to come out, it is clear that some are in it up to their necks, whereas others are smelling of roses.Peugeot-Citroën of France, battling the country's new Socialist government over desperately needed cuts, is sinking into the merde.

The anarchic gnome called "Merde"—the sewer-dwelling beast that Lavant played in a short by Carax for the compilation film "Tokyo"—passes through the Père Lachaise cemetery and interrupts a fashion shoot by the American photographer Harry T. Bone.

The use of offensive, obscene or taboo language is a linguistic feature in most human cultures, from the English "f**k off" to the French merde (sh**), and from the Indian sala (brother-in-law) to the Arabic yil'an abu ommak (curse your grandfather).

That leaves just the shortened Merde, which at least sums up the state of the euro.In fact, the Merkozy duo was unique in having a nickname.

Ms. Bloch then sent her a photo of herself assisting Rivera at Rockefeller Center; she had scraped out the word "Merde" on a whitewashed window shown in the photo.

(She was also reputed to be the first French society woman to have uttered the word merde in public).