Sample Sentences for
tête-à-tête
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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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    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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    As you may know, I was invited to the Kremlin for a tete-a-tete.  (source)
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    Our tete-a-tete is not following its usual course.  (source)
    tete-a-tete = 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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    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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    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)
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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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    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)
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    She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous tete-a-tetes with Catherine.†  (source)
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    A call at Meg's, and a refreshing sniff and sip at the Daisy and Demijohn, still further fortified her for the tete-a-tete, but when she saw a stalwart figure looming in the distance, she had a strong desire to turn about and run away.†  (source)
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    As they walked they at times stopped and walked again continuing their tête-à-tête (which, of course, he was utterly out of) about sirens enemies of man's reason, mingled with a number of other topics of the same category, usurpers, historical cases of the kind while the man in the sweeper car or you might as well call it in the sleeper car who in any case couldn't possibly hear because they were too far simply sat in his seat near the end of lower Gardiner street and looked after their lowbacked car.†  (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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