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, 19 Apr. 2023
• 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, 21 Apr. 2023
• Sparkling wine, club soda, a touch of lemon, and an orange peel round out this refreshing Gallic cocktail.
  — Chadner Navarro, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• 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, 24 July 2024
• The influx of cash from the French government and EU may help Gallic winemakers now, but there remain plenty of headwinds for them in the future.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• 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, 20 Feb. 2024
• 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, 11 Aug. 2023
• The death of English actress, singer-songwriter, and Gallic fashion plate Jane Birkin at the age of 76 has deprived the world of one of its most luminous and unconventional idols.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• 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, 27 June 2024
• The singer-turned-actor was snapped leaving a restaurant in the French capital in a suitably Gallic combination of black dress, black trench coat and black patent leather Saint Laurent shoulder bag.
  — Kerry McDermott, Vogue, 21 June 2023
• Chef de cuisine Ahmed Ibrahim is a native of Egypt with three science degrees and a restaurant résumé sans prior Gallic examples.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• But if its reach is international, its roots are firmly Gallic.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
• By all accounts, artist and elephant shared the same Gallic urbanity and optimistic outlook.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The vines along the bottom of the image, called a frieze, are also similar to other Gallic sites where they were carved into monumental public buildings, officials said.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 19 July 2024
• The old-school Gallic interiors (white cloths, lacquered bar, umpteen empty plonk bottles) give way to a more robustly British menu (but an entirely French and truly enormous wine list).
  — Tom Howells, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• The Gallic series was among seven in Tuesday’s presentation.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
• As part of Imax’s latest Gallic invasion, the theater technologies company has also agreed to show three upcoming Pathé movies across its network.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
• 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, 16 Apr. 2024
• Overall, 58 feature projects were presented (and 16 countries encompassed), and — in a testament to France’s robust animation ecosystem — Gallic outfits had a hand in nearly half of them.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• 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, 2 May 2023
• After assuring such technology on in-flight entertainment systems, Barco next expanded to hospitals and boardrooms, becoming so prevalent in the latter sphere that the brand itself became Gallic shorthand for conference room tech.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 15 May 2024
• The film follows current English-language period piece conventions by having actors with posh British accents play French citizens, occasionally throwing in a Gallic phrase or pronunciation.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
• Fellow Gallic firm Stirling Design International is responsible for the ship’s sleek exterior architecture.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024