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
  • In recent days, the signs of regional entente have been getting clearer.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That all sounds nice, but their group was too small—only about twenty-five thousand members at its peak—to effect such an entente.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • In the Baltics and Taiwan similar ententes with Ukraine are under way.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • Defense ties are central to the entente between India and Israel.
    — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Nonetheless, even a problematic entente is better than the free-for-all that governs today.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Nonetheless, even a problematic entente is better than the free-for-all that governs today.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
  • Nonetheless, even a problematic entente is better than the free-for-all that governs today.
    — Charles Krauthammer, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher have reached a musical entente.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Mr Renzi, who still enjoys the backing of most of the PD’s parliamentarians, wants an entente.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Rather than an entente between rivals, the format became gladiatorial.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But practical partnerships can still be powerful, and the Moscow-Pyongyang entente is no exception.
    — Sue Mi Terry, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2024
  • His silence is testament to a remarkable entente that has developed between the two authoritarian leaders.
    — The Economist, 23 Feb. 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
  • Particularly important has been Hamas’s long-standing entente with Islamic Jihad.
    — Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to strengthening his grip on power, Erdogan’s entente with Putin has already had significant consequences for both Russia and the West.
    — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Woodrow Wilson championed self-determination, but his victorious entente ignored Ukraine, recognizing Polish claims instead.
    — Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022

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