contretemps sentence examples

• He waltzed out of the dance class yesterday, and had a bad contretemps with kevin the instructor.
• This apparatus resulted in a minor contretemps when we were visited, on another matter, by a rather officious excise officer.
• Leon was more than a little surprised at this, since it didn't concur with his memory of the little contretemps.

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