Example sentences for: détente

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

  • --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.

  • In a late addition to the media fuss about the 25 th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, the cover story highlights his achievements, including creating the Environmental Protection Agency, increasing Social Security benefits, opening China, and seeking détente with the Soviet Union.

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

  • Likewise, today's idealistic conservatives still despise Kissinger and detect in Years of Renewal 's détente argument an excuse to coddle China.


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