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
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
On the last song in the set, Woody and Casado traded lines, bringing the old idea of a cutting competition forward, riding a rising tide rather than a tête-à-tête.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024
It reminded her of their first forlorn tête-à-tête, on the evening of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
