Example Sentences

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The tête-à-têtes between Ethan and Traveler should crackle, but they feel flat.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024

Smith will have to argue that scrutinizing those nasty tête-à-têtes would not infringe on executive authority.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

The book is full of bittersweet drawings of Marji’s tête-à-têtes with God, who resembles Marx, “though Marx’s hair was a bit curlier.”

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

The puppeteers achieve striking emotional effects, especially with their ape’s eyes, during several tender tête-à-têtes between Kong and Pitts’ Darrow, who in this version comes to see something of herself in the chained beast.

From Slate • Nov. 8, 2018

The furniture had been pushed back beneath the gallery where it was arranged in intimate little groups for future tête-à-têtes, except a few lounging chairs left on the black bear-skins by the chimney-piece.

From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings