How to Use contretemps in a Sentence

contretemps

noun

• The senator dismissed his disagreement with the President as a minor contretemps.
• That could backfire if the contretemps over Omar and Tlaib is more than a blip.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• The contretemps at the library started because of some fliers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• The columnist left the paper, one of about a dozen staff members who quit or were fired during the contretemps.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Oh, and that’s the one funny thing about the contretemps featuring the Chinese government and the NBA.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The longer the contretemps lasts, the worse the GOP will look to voters at a time when the nation is beginning to turn its attention to the 2018 election.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• And nowhere were these competing demands on display more than in the contretemps with Mr. Biden.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 25 June 2019
• The contretemps finally faded and the grocery was sold.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• My colleague Jesse Singal has a sane summary of the contretemps here.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Mar. 2018
• At some point, on-court drama will trump off-court contretemps, almost every time.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 15 Oct. 2019
• The whole contretemps has left a lingering distrust of his family in the public’s mind.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• And there were brief reminders of another contretemps that Mr. Trump set off just before leaving the United States.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 3 June 2019
• Avenatti, by the way, who has been dead-on in his predictions of how the Stormy-Donald contretemps would unfold, says that the president won’t serve out his first term.
  — Elizabeth Drew, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
• Its fate was one of many corporate contretemps that, BERA explained, convinced him to avoid the major music labels.
  — Amos Barshad, Wired, 27 Aug. 2020
• Despite the French protestations of outrage, analysts said there is unlikely to be any long-term fallout over the contretemps.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• But behind the 21st century contretemps is a history that predates the musket.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 27 July 2017
• Understanding the gravity of the contretemps requires a glimpse into the fastidious fashion in which the NTSB does its job.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• The contretemps over his time as dean made Professor Kagan something of an academic celebrity.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2021
• After several stories about the contretemps appeared in the local press, the company reversed course.
  — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Despite the contretemps two weeks earlier, the collaborative spirit was back in full swing.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022
• After decades of hype, a new generation of writers has finally taken a closer look at the alleged coin contretemps.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2017
• And the contretemps contains a revealing look at the sausage-making of investigative reporting and the sometimes murky dance between reporters and their unnamed sources.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2018
• Luckily, for Patten, not to mention Washington’s hoagie-lovers, the contretemps is unlikely to be fatal to Taylor Gourmet.
  — Helaine Olen, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• Waiters cast Wednesday's contretemps as isolated incidents, rather than a flare up.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• But the contretemps over the burkini, like that over the burqa (actually the niqab) and the hijab, or head scarf, before it, is emblematic of a deeper discomfort with religion throughout the Western world.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
• Her appeal, which the Hermitage opposed, sparked a contretemps that by some accounts contributed to her departure as director.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2020
• And the recent Trump-Turnbull contretemps hasn’t done the American-Australian relationship any favors.
  — John Hickey, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2017
• Elsewhere in Cannes, the ongoing contretemps between the festival and Netflix — which, protesting its de facto ban from the event’s main competition, hasn’t brought a movie here since 2017 — may have cooled a little in recent years.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2022
• The contretemps has served as a reminder of the perils facing corporations getting drawn into hot national debates.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Washington Post media writer Erik Wemple published an exhaustive account of the contretemps on his blog, and various womens’ sites weighed in as well.
  — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 21 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024