volte-face

Example Sentences

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What can I say about this complete volte-face?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Secondly, the executor of your father’s estate was either asleep on the job and/or had an inexplicable volte-face.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

But in what appears to be a volte-face, Burke’s “Ignorance: A Global History” explores the myriad ways in which “not-knowing” affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Although the judge said it was difficult to prove how much “moral damage” Santander’s volte-face caused Orcel, he said the bank’s withdrawal created “considerable frustration, uneasiness, uncertainty and a certain discredit in the banking world.”

From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2021

Having solemnly put on the white cockade in Madame St. Alais' drawing-room, I had not the courage to execute another volte-face.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John