Racine

How To Use Racine In A Sentence

• Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
• TVGuide.com: A lot of parents aren't too keen on the raciness of the show. Jersey Shore's New Girl Talks Tension with Sammi and Naked Regrets
• English has also "radicel" as an equivalent to "radicle" in the relevant sense, but French "radicelle" means something subtly different: Ramification de la racine principale Le Petit Robert. Languagehat.com: PLUMULE.
• What propelled Racine from sleepy farm town to 20th-century Florence of the Heartland?
• Still he hates to disappoint, so he did write back apologising for his apparent lack of raciness. Hugh Muir's Diary
• Mr. Bantling, who was of a rather slow and discursive habit, relished a prompt, keen, positive woman, who charmed him with the spectacle of a brilliant eye and a kind of bandbox neatness, and who kindled a perception of raciness in a mind to which the usual fare of life seemed unsalted. Chapter XX
• He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
• In Racine the poetry preponderates, with the drama a close second.
• But Racine is much more than a whistle-stop on the dairy run.
• Combining raciness and comfort, it could appeal to both courting couples and oldies with bad backs. Times, Sunday Times