How to Use détente in a Sentence

détente

noun
  • Your sons are adults and will have to reach a detente on their own.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The two even seem to form a fragile detente that is not present in the book.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2020
  • That spirit of detente seemed to only last through the night, though.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024
  • But with Jackson there was never going to be a detente reached.
    — Steve Popper, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • For the rest of the season, there were many discussions but little more than detente.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • But the twilight of the Obama era could have marked something of a detente in the cannabis cold war.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 20 Apr. 2017
  • But while kids chafe against strictures and surveillance, as always, some have reached a point of detente.
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Many Cubans who have not felt much impact from the detente on their daily lives agree, and feel resigned.
    — NBC News, 14 June 2017
  • Now, he's revived that rhetoric, after months of detente with Bowser.
    — Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
  • No reunion tour can proceed without the two of them arriving at some sort of detente.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Yet few in South Korea and beyond are setting much store by the detente.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • That common ground could be the key to achieving a detente when the two leaders meet Wednesday.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Last night made for a detente among Gen Xers, millennials, and zoomers.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
  • This uneasy detente between Matty and Olympia drives much of the rest of this episode’s plot.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
  • War had returned and the detente that had existed since the fall of the Iron Curtain was over.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Seemingly, a detente was broached on Monday.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The two were able to reach a warm detente at the close of Tuesday’s episode, but that does not mark an end to the drama on tap for the marrieds.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Hamas has cast the cease-fire as a victory and also shows no sign of seeking a lasting detente with Israel.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Heather and Jen air out their feelings in the Ice Castle, and manage to come to some sort of detente.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2021
  • But that gesture toward detente seemed unlikely to stem the very real anger expressed by Tan and his colleagues.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Then, on Tuesday, Rivas and Schultz announced a detente with Krell.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
  • The announcement marks a detente after years of permafrost between Musk and the White House.
    — WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Rose and the rest of the band, who fell out in the mid-1990s, apparently couldn’t reach detente about how to accept the honor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But less than a month before the Iowa caucuses, the Sanders-Warren detente has collapsed.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But China has not made such statements, and there’s still a risk that the two strongmen can’t see eye to eye or a rogue comment throws off the delicate detente.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The remnants of the old Ostpolitik of the Social Democrats, based on detente with Russia?
    — Vanessa Guinan-Bank, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • Have humans and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of Covid, reached a detente?
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But the Biden camp is wary of restarting the Obama-era thaw that saw new trade contacts develop between the countries and the glimmer of a detente.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
  • But Wall Street rallied on reports of a potential detente, even as consumer sentiment seesawed.
    — Rachel Barber, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • That detente has since been extended to November, as the two sides race to strike a broader deal to resolve their trade differences and long-running disputes.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025

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