How to Use entente in a Sentence

entente

noun
  • In recent days, the signs of regional entente have been getting clearer.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no clear timeline for any of this, but a pathway toward an entente has now opened.
    Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mr Renzi, who still enjoys the backing of most of the PD’s parliamentarians, wants an entente.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher have reached a musical entente.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Nonetheless, even a problematic entente is better than the free-for-all that governs today.
    Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
  • Experts are also skeptical of the Serbian-Kosovar entente.
    Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The rising entente between Beijing and Moscow underscores the growing threats to the U.S.-led international order.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 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
  • Like his center-left predecessors, Mr. Moon wants to play a balancing role between the regional powers and convince North Korea to negotiate an entente.
    WSJ, 12 June 2017
  • His silence is testament to a remarkable entente that has developed between the two authoritarian leaders.
    The Economist, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Woodrow Wilson championed self-determination, but his victorious entente ignored Ukraine, recognizing Polish claims instead.
    Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'entente.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: