tête-à-têtein a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
tête-à-tête as in: involved in a tête-à-tête
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They enjoyed a daily tête-à-tête as they walked through the woods.
tête-à-tête = a private conversation between two people
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Our tête-à-têtes just don't seem the same when we try them via Facetime.tête-à-têtes = private conversations between two people
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As you may know, I was invited to the Kremlin for a tete-a-tete. (source)tete-a-tete = private conversation between two people
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Our tete-a-tete is not following its usual course. (source)
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Yet time and her aunt moved slowly—and her patience and her ideas were nearly worn our before the tete-a-tete was over. (source)tete-a-tete = private conversations between two people
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The Beta blond was ravished away into the sky and kept there, hovering, for three weeks in a wildly anti-social tête-à-tête with the black madman. (source)tête-à-tête = private conversation between two people
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He'd learned a little Amharic in the hospital, but it was only through tête-à-têtes like this that he became fluent. (source)tête-à-têtes = private conversations between two people
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Even the delights of dancing paled before the alluring opportunities for tete-a-tetes that invited the soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the drawing-room with its deep comfy armchairs, its shaded lamps just made for a sly whisper of pretty nothings all a deux; or even in the billiard room where one could take a cue and show a prowess at still another game than that sponsored by Cupid and Terpsichore. (source)
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He had fed them and they had gone to the stairs to eat and then Hax had brought the Guard named Robeson to the wrong corner of the kitchen for their treasonous little tete-a-tete.† (source)tete-a-tete = a private conversation between two people
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Hurrying the rest of the way down the stairs, I find Mrs. de Villiers and Dominique in the foyer having a little tête-à-tête of their own...But not in voices low enough for me not to overhear what they're saying.† (source)
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It was an extraordinary summer—all letters, scenes, telegrams—arriving at Bourton early in the morning, hanging about till the servants were up; appalling tête-à-têtes with old Mr. Parry at breakfast; Aunt Helena formidable but kind; Sally sweeping him off for talks in the vegetable garden; Clarissa in bed with headaches.† (source)tête-à-têtes = private conversations between two people
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She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous tete-a-tetes with Catherine.† (source)
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It caught him barely off guard but he failed to fall back, parrying strongly instead and suddenly we were in an untenable position, corps-a-corps, forte-a-forte, almost tete-a-tete.† (source)tete-a-tete = a private conversation between two people
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Yet I am certain that he does not wish their intimacy to ripen into love, and I have several times observed that he has taken pains to prevent them from being tête-à-tête.† (source)
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tête-à-tête as in: seated in a tête-à-tête
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We sat in a tête-à-tête and talked all night.
tête-à-tête = S-shaped sofa that permits two people to sit face-to-face
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It's the couple seated in the tête-à-tête.
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They had a couple of tête-à-têtes at her apartment. (source)tête-à-têtes = S-shaped sofas each of which permit two people to sit face-to-face
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