tête-à-tête
Example Sentences
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When she revisited that high-octane scene on set with a more willing scene partner in Pelphrey, Jones said going tête-à-tête with him was a riveting experience: “I forgot that there were cameras rolling.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
For a few hours on Sunday, the United States and Colombia engaged in a full-blown economic tête-à-tête.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2025
The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024
“Freud’s Last Session” comes from the stage and, like “The Two Popes,” centers on the tête-à-tête of intellectual opposites.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
I had prepared an occupation for him; for I was determined not to spend the whole time in a tête-à-tête conversation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
