how-do-you-do
Example Sentences
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After the usual how-do-you-do, they begin performing for each other and quickly slide into enchanted sync.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2022
When your first how-do-you-do is followed moments later by being thrown into the trenches of work, there’s no time or reason for last names and family history.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2021
At the door was their neighbor, Geoff Prentiss, just delivering a neighborly how-do-you-do.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2019
One of them asked why U2 thought they could embed themselves in people’s phones without so much as a how-do-you-do.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2014
All these weeks together, it’s been hard to get more than a how-do-you-do.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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