Example sentences for: détente

How can you use “détente” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Dick tells it, the story got even weirder: Here at last is the druggy truth behind détente!

  • --unfurled like a white flag, pacific civilian Switzerland--the miraculous neutrality of it, the non-combatant impartiality of it, the non-aggression pacts of it, the international red cross of it--entente to the left, détente to the right, into the valley of the invalided blundered and wandered myself when young--Carr of the Consulate!"

  • According to Kissinger, the breathing space created by détente gave the United States time to recover from Vietnam without retreating into isolationism, thus setting the table for Reagan.

  • The fight over whether détente helped win the Cold War is not simply academic.

  • They focus, as one might expect, on the big issues--containment, détente, China, Vietnam--and on the day-to-day contingencies of democratic politics and imperial diplomacy.


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