Example sentences for: détente

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

  • If Kissingerian détente helped break the Soviets, then presumably Kissingerian détente could help tame today's Chinese.

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

  • Ha'aretz , which led its front page Wednesday with a report that Barak is planning to seek détente with Israel's "enemy number one," Iran, against strong objections by his own military intelligence, also pointed out in its Wednesday editorial that Barak has "achieved his fundamental goal--a government unthreatened by a sword of Damocles over its head."

  • --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!"

  • 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.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast