How to Use face-to-face in a Sentence

face-to-face

adverb or adjective
  • Sadler sat face-to-face with the masked man, who shot once into the car.
    Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Now, face-to-face with Travis Kelce, the idea seemed less brilliant.
    Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This is the first face-to-face meeting between Austin and Dong.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • He’s also been able to chat face-to-face with some of the biggest names in film.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
  • The fear that maybe she’s come face-to-face with a deadly predator.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The dog had heard something in the backyard, but soon came face-to-face with two coyotes.
    Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 31 May 2023
  • Riders sit face-to-face in each ax, which swing in 360-degree loops.
    Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • From the sand, beachgoers can look up and be face-to-face with red and orange cliffs.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The two leaders last met face-to-face a year ago in Bali, Indonesia.
    Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Baker still likes to watch over the baby, whether on the monitor or face-to-face.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Badolato had traveled to Portland for the two to talk face-to-face about how the program might work.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Biden, 81, left the event within two hours and never came face-to-face with the protestors.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
  • Fans will buy tickets to see Messi and Ronaldo face-to-face once more.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But will name recognition and his face-to-face charm offensive boost him in the polls?
    Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Even the ending, when Puss and the Wolf are face-to-face, that was inspired by ‘Sanjuro,’ one of the last moments that ends in a standoff.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The point of diplomacy This isn’t to say that diplomacy and face-to-face talks are pointless.
    Michael Beckley, The Conversation, 17 Nov. 2023
  • There were some people in the front office also pushing for the face-to-face meeting.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Get face-to-face with your partner, either lying down side by side or with one of you on top of the other.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Like preferring to speak face-to-face over video-calling.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Businesses are ready for those face-to-face meetings once again.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2023
  • Vico is more used to face-to-face battling than the structured dance that’s easier to score.
    Jevon Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Thai Kitchen has become one of the few remaining spaces in the city where people can play video games face-to-face.
    Dev Hardikar, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023
  • The two leaders signed a diplomatic and defense pact on their last face-to-face meeting in June.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In one scene, a flummoxed Gosling winds up face-to-face with Blunt, who’s pressuring him for answers.
    Meredith Woerner, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • Fire people the old fashioned way (face-to-face or voice-to-voice, with care and humility).
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The warring generals have reportedly not met face-to-face since the start of the conflict in April.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Once the proposal has been accepted, production arranges for the pair to meet face-to-face for the first time.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • His face-to-face audience was the first since the monarch revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The next step is to introduce them face-to-face, always under your supervision.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • To interject what the two of them can’t say to each other face-to-face, Lacuesta and co-writer Fernando Navarro introduce voiceover narration from the first few frames.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024

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