chateau

in a sentence

While all this suffering was going on, while people were losing their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods, our president, Asif Zardari, was on holiday at a chateau in France.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

We'd have to leave my grandmother at the chateau, of course.†  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

One was better off at the Piscines Chateau-Landon, Rouvet or du boulevard de la Gare.†  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001

Chateau†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

There were some fine photographs of the chateaux of the Loire, and an article as well.†  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

A year is how long it's taken me to quietly wander round on my own and re-purchase the frauds still out, a delicate proceeding which I've found is best conducted in person: three or four trips a month, New Jersey and Oyster Bay and Providence and New Canaan, and—further afield —Miami, Houston, Dallas, Charlottesville, Atlanta, where at the invitation of my lovely client Mindy, the wife of an auto-parts magnate named Earl, I spent three fairly congenial days in the guest house of a spanking new coral-stone chateau featuring its own billiard parlour, "gentleman's pub" (with authentic, imported, English-born barkeep), and indoor shooting range with custom track mounted target system.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

The pastureland was green, and there were fine trees, and sometimes big rivers and chateaux off in the trees.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

It was an ornate four-story mansion, a Second Empire chateau built by a former mayor of Savannah in 1873.†  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

This flat, flourishing, easy country never could have looked more rich and prosperous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multiplied red-coats: when its wide chaussees swarmed with brilliant English equipages: when its great canal-boats, gliding by rich pastures and pleasant quaint old villages, by old chateaux lying amongst old trees, were all crowded with well-to-do English travellers: when the soldier who drank at the village inn, not only drank, but paid his score; and Donald, the Highlander, billeted in the Flemish farm-house, rocked the baby's cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the hay.†  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

And neither is the old man, and he never was, and I don't care what he says he almost did at Chateau-Thierry.†  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

It had all the formality of a room in a museum, where alcoves were roped off, and a guardian, in cloak and hat like the guides in the French chateaux, sat in a chair beside the door.†  (source) Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca, 1938

One of these buildings is called Chateau Neuf, which means 'the new palace.'†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

Gift robes and wrappers, Venetian mirrors and chateaux-in-the-moonlight tapestries, teacarts, end tables, onyx-based lamps, percolators and electric toasters, and novels—boxes of things stacked up in the closets and under the beds, awaiting their time of usefulness.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949