tete-a-tete

How To Use tete-a-tete In A Sentence

• `Are you determined to cut short this pleasant tête-à-tête ? THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
• a tete-a-tete supper
• the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme
• And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman, the foreign correspondent, interrupted their tete-a-tete.
• If you dread the unvariedness of our hours of tête-à-tête; if you consider these scenes as too favourable to remembrances which you do not wish me to cherish; suffer me to absent myself from Henhurst, and from you, my dear, my almost only friend, for a short time. Things By Their Right Names
• I mean, where's the harm in having dinner tête-à-tête with an old flame? RESCUING ROSE
• The 31-year-old Westbrook clearly had the ear of the referees, who engaged in the kind of tete-a-tetes they tend to conduct primarily with respected veterans. SFGate: Top News Stories
• During our after-dinner tête-à-tête on the day now referred to, my friend the cannonier had shown himself exceedingly unreserved, and, without any attempt on my part to draw him out, he had elucidated, with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
• we talked tete-a-tete
• As Lady St. Edmunds was no restraint upon me, her presence in our coterie was rather advantageous to Lord Frederick, banishing the reserve of a tete-a-tete, and allowing him constantly to offer gallantries too indirect to provoke repulse, yet too pointed to be overlooked.