face to face

ADVERB
  1. involving close contact; confronting each other
    the boy and the policeman suddenly came face-to-face at the corner
    they spoke face to face
  2. within each other's presence
    she met the president face-to-face
  3. directly facing each other
    the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table
    they sat opposite at the table
    lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street
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How To Use face to face In A Sentence

  • She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
  • For when we come to God, then we believe no more, but rather see with our eyes face to face how He is; yet for all that love remains still; so that love may be called the chiefest, because she endureth forever. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin
  • Here she came face to face with the welfare and social problems confronting large families.
  • Thanks to Jay Cross and others, we know that informal learning is ultimately much more productive of lasting effects than traditional formal learning, whether it be face to face, distance tutoring or the self-access variety of e-learning. The evolving culture of informal learning
  • But the action really worth watching will unfurl where delegates and lobbyists come face to face with actual unmasked New Yorkers, who will demand accountability.
  • He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face. THE RED ONE
  • He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bas-reliefs on this low screen are groups of peacocks and lions, two face to face on each panel, rich and fantastic beyond description, though not expressive of very accurate knowledge either of leonine or pavonine forms. Stones of Venice [introductions]
  • They come face to face at the Riverside today. The Sun
  • Face to face the design duo aren't the chattiest pair, but they have an eye for considerate, designs. Times, Sunday Times
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