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

The volte-face leaves our protagonist with a very different legacy.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

"Well," marvelled she, "here is a surprise—here is a volte-face indeed."

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry