How to Use entente in a Sentence

entente

noun

• There’s no clear timeline for any of this, but a pathway toward an entente has now opened.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
• The harsh rebuttal marks a potential fracture to the entente seen in the first 16 months of the new government.
  — Michael O'Boyle, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2019
• In recent days, the signs of regional entente have been getting clearer.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
• Two of the change catalysts – both of them also factors in a closer Franco-German entente – have come close to home.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2020
• Mr Renzi, who still enjoys the backing of most of the PD’s parliamentarians, wants an entente.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, the sachem (chief) Ousamequin offered the new arrivals an entente, primarily as a way to protect the Wampanoags against their rivals, the Narragansetts.
  — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian, 27 Nov. 2019
• Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher have reached a musical entente.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2017
• Nonetheless, even a problematic entente is better than the free-for-all that governs today.
  — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
• Experts are also skeptical of the Serbian-Kosovar entente.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
• But the political truce lasted less than a day as Labour and May’s Conservatives tore up any notion of entente and swapped barbs following the third deadly terrorist attack in Britain in three months.
  — Robert Hutton, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2017
• The rising entente between Beijing and Moscow underscores the growing threats to the U.S.-led international order.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• Wanamaker, as the precisely coiffed Jean, toils to keep the entente between father and son, meanwhile cloaking her financial success to avoid emasculating her husband.
  — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
• Like his center-left predecessors, Mr. Moon wants to play a balancing role between the regional powers and convince North Korea to negotiate an entente.
  — WSJ, 12 June 2017
• His silence is testament to a remarkable entente that has developed between the two authoritarian leaders.
  — The Economist, 23 Feb. 2021
• Woodrow Wilson championed self-determination, but his victorious entente ignored Ukraine, recognizing Polish claims instead.
  — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024