How To Use bete noire In A Sentence
- Further exposure to oxygen converts the acetaldehyde to acetic acid, the acidic component of wine vinegar, the wine-maker's bête noire.
- Mitt Romney before being adopted by Democrats and becoming a bete noire of conservatives. An interview with Mark Pauly, father of the individual mandate
- In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
- Our real bete noire is the car boot sale.
- _Bête Noire_, my _bête noire_, and so I called him, and as he is by no means averse to eating through his head rope when picketed, I find that the curtailment to "gnaw" is satisfactory enough as far as names go. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
- Indeed, in the late Bush era, Hill became a kind of bete noire for Cheney. Undefined
- Wooller was our bete noire; the first time I ever heard boos on a sports field was one afternoon at Cheltenham when he came out to bat. Madcap Wilf Wooller created my Glamorgan angst | Frank Keating
- Hoover's bete noire -- and the one man he could not break -- was Martin Luther A Conversation with James Ellroy author of The Cold Six Thousand
- Right-to-work laws make union membership and dues voluntary for all workers, and they are thus the bete noire of labor unions, which see them as a threat to their political clout. Show Me the Jobs
- In one break it appeared alongside my current bete noire, the one where a fortyish chap, with a look on his face that I suspect is intended to be misty-eyed romanticism, talks about how instead of doing the weekly shop he would rather be watching the waves break on the shore, or walking with his lovely wife and kids in the park, or be in bed making love to his lovely wife. Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
