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How to use contretemps in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contretemps? Here are some examples.

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Then you find yourself in the midst of a minor contretemps, and everyone gets more readers.
Meanwhile, the largest contretemps of the campaign season erupted between two studios that are not even in the race for best picture.
What provoked the series of events that led to her going away, many months earlier, was a dinner-table contretemps in the Partridge household.
But there are harder battles ahead than that little contretemps in the desert.
It's hard to ignore the interoffice elements of the contretemps.
A contretemps involving mistaken identities reminiscent of the opera lightheartedly weaves through the antics of farmers, dwellers, and other rural folk.
Play continues and Inglis is tackled in-goal by Hayne as a minor contretemps breaks out.
We witnessed the contretemps that occurred on the split-run magazine issue when the Americans threatened to retaliate on steel.
The perfect knowledge of the gem market and the intense price negotiations by DYB Gems enabled its clients not to suffer from this contretemps.
A really effective task force who managed to resolve quite a few little contretemps during these few days.
In the interim, the funeral of Henri IV was conducted in the usual grand fashion, but contretemps abounded.
That seemed like it was the end of the matter but then new life was breathed into the contretemps on Monday.
Carter reveals that Jay made weird, borderline mentorly calls to Kimmel long before the Conan contretemps began.
But the Web contretemps has had an impact all the same, particularly on the political right.
I assure you that any reasonable and thinking person reading this contretemps of lazy writing and outright stupidity may just harbor suicidal thoughts.
The contretemps escalated during a commercial break when Khrushchev was handed a note by one of his advisers.
I think that is what prompted the unfortunate contretemps this evening.
The episode evoked an earlier contretemps, when the ministry of culture judged the visual-arts biennale to be overly sympathetic to new media at the expense of painting.
The senator dismissed his disagreement with the President as a minor contretemps.
Examples from Classical Literature
He determined to take no notice of the contretemps, but return boldly to the attack.
A contretemps less likely to occur at the Choctaw Chief, and there stayed they.
It was an aggravation of annoyance to have her as a witness of these contretemps.
There are no contretemps, no unhappy moments, no jealousies, no heart-burnings.
The success of the Bach cantata was injured by a contretemps.
Not only was there no contretemps, but all went off well and pleasantly.
The slightest contretemps must infallibly upset him altogether.
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