Sample sentences for RAPPROCHEMENT

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establishment or renewal of good relations — especially between countries

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.
The rapprochement took place gradually, rather than at any sort of intense heart-to-heart meeting.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
A failing out doesn't preclude a later rapprochement, his mind retorted with a kind of grave and implacable calm.
Stephen King -- Cujo
There was between them a momentary rapprochement; but it could not last.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
I was saying to Hastings only yesterday that a rapprochement of the people concerned was needed.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
Then, in the midst of this delicate rapprochement, Outside magazine confirmed it was sending me to Everest.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
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.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
But that rapprochement did not last long, and Ferula was quick to realize that she had been used.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
There would have been nothing else to talk about but a rapprochement between that estranged pair.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
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.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
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.
Henry L. Mencken -- The American Language

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