Sans
preposition
Without something or someone.
He stood there, sans coat, in the cold.
Often appears as...
- sans serif
- sans doubt
Usage tips
Formal
preposition
Not having or using something.
He enjoys learning new languages, sans dictionary.
Often appears as...
- sans any
- sans something
Usage tips
Formal
preposition
Used to emphasize the absence of something.
He decided to continue the journey sans companionship.
Often appears as...
- sans clothes
- sans money
Usage tips
Formal
preposition
Without something or someone.
He stood there, sans coat, in the cold.
Often appears as...
- sans serif
- sans doubt
Usage tips
Formal
preposition
Not having or using something.
He enjoys learning new languages, sans dictionary.
Often appears as...
- sans any
- sans something
Usage tips
Formal
preposition
Used to emphasize the absence of something.
He decided to continue the journey sans companionship.
Often appears as...
- sans clothes
- sans money
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sans' to create a strong visual image showing the absence of something typically present.
He arrived sans shoes, surprising everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasizing Lack
'Sans' often emphasizes the lack of something in a noticeable or significant way.
She played the lead role sans makeup.
Pro Tip 3/3French Influence
Remember 'sans' is borrowed from French, suggesting a hint of sophistication or literary style.
The garden party ambiance was sans pretension.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sans' to create a strong visual image showing the absence of something typically present.
He arrived sans shoes, surprising everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasizing Lack
'Sans' often emphasizes the lack of something in a noticeable or significant way.
She played the lead role sans makeup.
Pro Tip 3/3French Influence
Remember 'sans' is borrowed from French, suggesting a hint of sophistication or literary style.
The garden party ambiance was sans pretension.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sans' to create a strong visual image showing the absence of something typically present.
He arrived sans shoes, surprising everyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Emphasizing Lack
'Sans' often emphasizes the lack of something in a noticeable or significant way.
She played the lead role sans makeup.
Pro Tip 3/3French Influence
Remember 'sans' is borrowed from French, suggesting a hint of sophistication or literary style.
The garden party ambiance was sans pretension.
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Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
I made a serif type, you can see it on the right, without curved serifs. I made them polygonal, out of straight line segments, chamfered brackets. And look, as economical in data as a sans serif. We call it Charter, on the right. So I went to the head of engineering with my numbers, and I said proudly,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
really doesn't like me it doesn't want to stay we might have to everybody doesn't want to stay ok sans oh I think we may have one there we go we won I figured it out look at me good thanks so technologically advanced Sam you thank
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"All the World's a...
Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
I made a serif type, you can see it on the right, without curved serifs. I made them polygonal, out of straight line segments, chamfered brackets. And look, as economical in data as a sans serif. We call it Charter, on the right. So I went to the head of engineering with my numbers, and I said proudly,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 133 PIPE...
really doesn't like me it doesn't want to stay we might have to everybody doesn't want to stay ok sans oh I think we may have one there we go we won I figured it out look at me good thanks so technologically advanced Sam you thank
Video examples
"All the World's a...
Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Richard Attenborough
English Actor
My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
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Koren Zailckas
American Writer
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.
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Shefali Zariwala
Indian Actress
Had 'Kaanta Laga' been a song sans video or if the video just had youngsters dancing in a discotheque, the audiences wouldn't have been interested in watching it. But it had a very unique theme.
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Tori Spelling
American Actress
It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?
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Koren Zailckas
American Writer
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.
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Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
I like my face sans make-up - a dash of lipstick and a little mascara.
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Isadora Duncan
American Dancer
My motto - sans limites.
Quote examples
Richard Attenborough
English Actor
My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
Quote examples
Koren Zailckas
American Writer
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.
Quote examples
Shefali Zariwala
Indian Actress
Had 'Kaanta Laga' been a song sans video or if the video just had youngsters dancing in a discotheque, the audiences wouldn't have been interested in watching it. But it had a very unique theme.
Quote examples
Tori Spelling
American Actress
It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?
Quote examples
Koren Zailckas
American Writer
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia.
Quote examples
Rituparna Sengupta
Indian Actress
I like my face sans make-up - a dash of lipstick and a little mascara.
Quote examples
Isadora Duncan
American Dancer
My motto - sans limites.
Example 1 of 7
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