How to Use Gallic in a Sentence

Gallic

adjective
  • While in the air, guests will be served high-end French food and quaffable Gallic wines.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2023-04-19
  • Sparkling wine, club soda, a touch of lemon, and an orange peel round out this refreshing Gallic cocktail.
    — Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 2023-09-06
  • Know this about the Gallic upstarts: The contenders aren’t mirror images or taste-alikes, and they’re spread across the city.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2023-04-21
  • By all accounts, artist and elephant shared the same Gallic urbanity and optimistic outlook.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 2024-03-22
  • There are Gallic gasps, too, at the bike crashes, boxing big hits and other assorted crunching sporting moments included in this tape.
    — NBC News, 2024-08-12
  • There was the range, the effortless jumping around octaves, and the subtle but discernible Gallic lilt, lending centuries of yearning to her bell-like clarity.
    — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 2023-08-11
  • For over a decade, the 10 to Watch program has amplified the voices redefining Gallic cinema.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 2025-01-21
  • Like any modern city, Paris’ early inhabitants raised their own food; the Romans, who called the place Lutetia, coaxed grapes and figs from the Gallic soil.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2024-07-24
  • Researchers said the image is a clear depiction of the Romans’ victory over the Gallic people in northeastern France.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2024-07-19
  • To complete the look, the founder of Rare Beauty naturally chose to lacquer her lips in a fire-engine red, the true hallmark of Gallic insouciance.
    — Georgia Day, Glamour, 2024-02-20
  • It was inhabited by a Gallic tribe called the Parisii before being conquered by the Roman Empire in the first century.
    — Anna Gordon, TIME, 2024-07-26
  • But to hear the Gallic helmer tell it, the Netflix film is far from a capitulation to Hollywood but in fact a sly act of cinematic subversion.
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-06-27
  • The tradition traces its roots to antiquity, when Egyptian pharaohs, biblical kings and Gallic chiefs alike were inaugurated as rulers in public ceremonies.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-05-02
  • This is why — even while France’s gung-ho message receives a welcome audience among the states nearest to Russia — Germany does not take kindly to what one official described as Gallic grandstanding.
    — Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 2024-04-16

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