How to Use rendezvous in a Sentence

rendezvous

1 of 2 noun
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  • The restaurant will be our rendezvous.
  • He was late for their rendezvous.
  • The first person in space; the first rendezvous in space; the first walk in space; the first trip to the moon.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 July 2021
  • Your plan was to reach it, head back to a rendezvous with the Berserk, and sail north.
    — Christopher Keyes, Outside Online, 17 May 2021
  • This could take the form of a friendly rendezvous, or perhaps a chance at the spotlight.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Those stressful overnight hours to the next rendezvous were haunting.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022
  • In episode two, Robert has a rendezvous with an older and richer woman in a limo.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Ian has a rendezvous with fate, his son, Ryan (Blake Jenner), shows up to find out what happened to him.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • That was the original thought of these rendezvous was to get the people out of the cabins and get them off the trapline and come to town and see people again.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • But news of the Affleck-Lopez rendezvous caught the internet by surprise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Her latest ‘fit isn’t even her first rendezvous with suits and sneakers.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • And since this event combines the adrenaline of racing with the fun of a rendezvous it’s not only about wins and losses.
    — Bill Springer, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • And remember: The sheer top isn’t only reserved for a late-night rendezvous.
    — Vogue, 9 May 2022
  • And who better to measure the emotional heft of their rendezvous than the man who stole Anakin from Obi-Wan, Palpy himself?
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 22 June 2022
  • This is an immense world of nighttime love and daytime rendezvous.
    — Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Their rendezvous was supposed to last about 30 minutes.
    — John Blake, CNN, 14 Nov. 2021
  • But even this search feels subdued, with bucks plodding, rather than trotting, to their next rendezvous.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Later in the evening, Nick also has a secret rendezvous with Tuello.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The rendezvous in Germany brought them closer still, but both left the door to their relationship wide open.
    — Tammy La Gorce, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Both teams slipped back into the desert night, meeting the navigator at a rendezvous point.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • En route to a rendezvous with the truck transporting the handmaids to the colony, Nick arranges a semi-private goodbye with June.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The two indulge the paparazzi with their public rendezvous at Delilah in Los Angeles.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Hanks' unexpected rendezvous with his AI self in a dental ad is just the tip of the iceberg.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • After the rundown of who’s hunting where, everybody grabs a rifle and heads for a rendezvous with a deer.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Will Gabriel and Emily's rendezvous come out to everyone?
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Today's Valentino show inside Paris's Carreau du Temple was a rendezvous between the past and present, the atelier and the street.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The right companion should understand your need to postpone a rendezvous for the time being.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That flight included a rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • So much so, that some people want to know if the two are having their own Jack-and-Mel romantic rendezvous in real life.
    — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2021
  • Had things gone as planned, the spacecraft would have then arced back toward our planet and looped outward a second time for a lunar rendezvous.
    — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
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rendezvous

2 of 2 verb
  • The cousins rendezvoused in New York before they flew to London.
  • One day, the nanny fails to rendezvous with the mother.
    — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
  • In the 1970s, a plan was hatched to rendezvous with a comet—the same comet that Kepler spied in the sky centuries earlier.
    — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
  • But writing about an essence that isn’t true is like trying to rendezvous with someone on the dark side of the moon.
    — Kevin Kotur, kansascity.com, 20 May 2017
  • Then, the astronauts would rendezvous with the transfer stage to return to the Gateway.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • This rocket will rendezvous and dock with the piece of the spacecraft that remained in orbit.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The ascent portion of the lander will rendezvous and dock with the piece that remained in orbit.
    — Kenneth Chang, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Boeing attempted the flight once before, but was not able to rendezvous with the ISS.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The unmanned craft, Hayabusa 2, is scheduled to rendezvous with Ryugu on Wednesday.
    — NBC News, 12 Aug. 2021
  • By Monday night, the four astronauts will rendezvous and dock with ISS.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2020
  • At the end of their two-day sojourn, Jonk and his friends trekked back across the steppe to rendezvous with their driver at a prearranged spot on the highway.
    — Wired, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The crew would rendezvous with the cargo capsule, the astronauts would strap in, and the real drama would begin.
    — NBC News, 5 June 2018
  • Once in orbit around the moon, the astronauts will rendezvous with a lander, move aboard, undock and descend to the surface.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • That craft would have rendezvoused with the huge space rock, sucked up a sample from its surface and returned it to Earth in November 2038.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
  • That would roughly be the trip's halfway point, where the parents of some students were expected to rendezvous with their kids.
    — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But just a few hours before takeoff, the Bats got a call from a tanker squadron looking to rendezvous for a midair refueling.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2020
  • And Martian samples are expected to rendezvous with Earth in 11 years.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
  • This week with the sun and Venus rendezvousing in your travel house, your mission statement is loud and clear: Go where no Saj has dared to go before.
    — SFChronicle.com, 21 July 2019
  • This is a separate spacecraft that will rendezvous with Blue Moon in lunar orbit to put the lander on course for the Moon's surface.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2021
  • If all goes well, the partners might rendezvous multiple times—rounding out their feasts with some nuzzling to celebrate the end of a day’s hard work.
    — Popular Science, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Interstellar Probe could rendezvous with another on its way off to the stars.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
  • Upon entering the lander, the astronauts took a brief nap and launched off the Sea of Tranquility to rendezvous with Collins and head for home.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In the film, Tony and María decide to rendezvous at a subway station after meeting in secret at her balcony after the dance.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • At the end of the day, everyone rendezvoused for cocktails and the couples' favorite activity: karaoke.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 5 June 2018
  • Starship will rendezvous with the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit and ferry astronauts down to and up from the Moon.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The Crew Dragon is designed to rendezvous and dock with the space station autonomously, without any direct input from the crew.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 June 2020
  • The commercial crew spacecraft was attempting a redo of its December 2019 flight that was not able to rendezvous with the ISS.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • In the book, McKeon described noticing some of Onassis’ teenage cousins rendezvousing in her flower patch.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 14 May 2017
  • Stealth is vital in Kingsley's goal to rendezvous with fellow paratroopers who landed in France ahead of D-Day.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
  • It’s been a place to rendezvous with writer-friends such as Amiri Baraka and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, while watching the festival’s reach expand.
    — Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 8 June 2023

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