How to Use face-to-face in a Sentence

face-to-face

adverb or adjective
  • Will Justin and Blake come face-to-face at the next court date?
    Eric Andersson, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Sadler sat face-to-face with the masked man, who shot once into the car.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • This episode opens with Reacher face-to-face at last with Xavier Quinn.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Donald Trump and Mike Pence came face-to-face for the first time in nearly four years.
    Lizzie Hyman, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Pearce alone has been involved in more than 100 face-to-face meetings.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The two leaders last met face-to-face a year ago in Bali, Indonesia.
    Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The way out of this is to have a face-to-face conversation with your son and daughter-in-law.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Traitors, face-to-face before being put into a coffin to leave the game.
    Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • If there was any doubt as to De Niro’s greatness, it’s laid to rest in these face-to-face confrontations.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Gi-hun and the Recruiter then come face-to-face when the latter is caught snooping around the former’s hotel room.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 26 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Video from the scene shows a row of police officers face-to-face with a group of demonstrators.
    Mick Krever, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • After all those heartfelt letters, begging her nephew to return home, Cara finally comes face-to-face with Spencer.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The unsuccessful meeting with Netanyahu marked the first face-to-face sit down with a foreign leader since Trump last week unleashed a wave of tariffs against geopolitical rivals and allies alike.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025

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