rapprochementin a sentence
- the 1970s rapprochement of China and the United States
- France's rapprochement with NATO
- A chance meeting and a mutual friend helped bring about a rapprochement.
- But that rapprochement did not last long, and Ferula was quick to realize that she had been used.† (source)
- The rapprochement took place gradually, rather than at any sort of intense heart-to-heart meeting.† (source)
- A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.† (source)
- Then, in the midst of this delicate rapprochement, Outside magazine confirmed it was sending me to Everest.† (source)
- If it had taken twenty-nine years to drift apart, I knew that a few weeks of effort was simply the beginning of a long process of rapprochement.† (source)
- I suppose it was because it reminded me of the tender rapprochements that had worked so well to heal our differences in the past: if not burning passion, then at least a truce with a commitment to working things out.† (source)
- I was saying to Hastings only yesterday that a rapprochement of the people concerned was needed.† (source)
- There was between them a momentary rapprochement; but it could not last.† (source)
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- There would have been nothing else to talk about but a rapprochement between that estranged pair.† (source)
- On all sides, indeed, there flourished a strong British party, and particularly in New England, where the so-called codfish aristocracy (by no means extinct, even today) exhibited an undisguised Anglomania, and looked forward confidently to a /rapprochement/ with the mother country.† (source)
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