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Example sentences for "contretemps"

Lexicographically close words:
contravention; contraventions; contre; contree; contrees; contrey; contribute; contributed; contributes; contributing
  1. Notwithstanding this very deplorable contretemps for me, I immediately informed Herr Councillor A.

  2. As regards introductions to Berlin there is a provoking contretemps for you.

  3. Thanks to your youth and constitution you shake off the pursuit at Notting Hill; and, to avoid any chance of unpleasant contretemps on the return journey, walk home to Bloomsbury by way of Camden Town and Islington.

  4. By the evening of the fourth all was in readiness, and samples were tested to make sure that no contretemps should occur the following night.

  5. Pan had been amongst them--not the great god Pan, who has been buried these two thousand years, but the little god Pan, who presides over social contretemps and unsuccessful picnics.

  6. The son, who took every little contretemps as if it were a tragedy, was listening also.

  7. It is a serious contretemps that you had to leave Paris, Molly," agreed her well-dressed visitor.

  8. I am here to tell you that a serious contretemps has occurred, and that Mr. Henfrey has escaped from France.

  9. I had a short time before sat infructuously with this lady, when a distressing contretemps occurred.

  10. This little domestic contretemps is then, I presume, disagreeable to you!

  11. You may lay your plans ever so carefully, but you cannot foresee such a contretemps as this.

  12. Breaking up into loose order, they made their way back with surprisingly little loss; but a strange contretemps occurred, for, leaping suddenly into a trench held by the Gordons, they transfixed themselves upon the bayonets of the men.

  13. But in the meanwhile a contretemps had occurred which threw out and seriously hampered the whole British line of battle.

  14. Even the man who confided to me the contretemps in the hotel parlor could not be sure what underlay Mr. Jeffrey's warm advocacy of the woman he had elected to marry.

  15. Yet even this contretemps did not upset him; he merely called the offending bottle a fool, and then debated whom first he should visit in his attractive guise.

  16. Nor can any one but God say to what a figure the fortunes of the pair might not eventually have attained, had not an awkward contretemps cut right across their arrangements.

  17. Naturally this unseemly contretemps had greatly upset our hero; for, however foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.

  18. Fanny giggled, enjoying the contretemps hugely and determined it shouldn't lose savour for want of ambiguous seasoning.

  19. Although all this cipher business was under charge of one of my branches, the contretemps was due to no neglect on my own part.

  20. The complications that would then ensue, with himself powerless to lift a finger, Jimmie Dale did not care to think about--such a contretemps must at all hazards be prevented.

  21. Fanny was too much overcome by the ludicrous aspect of the contretemps to be able to laugh.

  22. It was a psychological contretemps of the rarest sort, and distinctly uncomfortable.

  23. I am quite satisfied with her and have no intention of disturbing her about that contretemps to-day.

  24. A contretemps has occurred of which I think I ought to inform you, as it relates to the very interesting subject of grounds and pigments.

  25. One night a slight contretemps occurred which came near depriving me of one of my friends, if not both.

  26. The contretemps was one he had never anticipated.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contretemps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.