How to Use rendezvous in a Sentence

rendezvous

1 of 2 noun
  • The restaurant will be our rendezvous.
  • He was late for their rendezvous.
  • Sean Penn, though, didn’t need to leave his house for such a rendezvous.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So Greenlight is the site of many of our rendezvous.
    — James Factora, Them., 29 Aug. 2025
  • Your plan was to reach it, head back to a rendezvous with the Berserk, and sail north.
    — Christopher Keyes, Outside Online, 17 May 2021
  • Her latest ‘fit isn’t even her first rendezvous with suits and sneakers.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Those stressful overnight hours to the next rendezvous were haunting.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 8 July 2022
  • 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
  • This could take the form of a friendly rendezvous, or perhaps a chance at the spotlight.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 5 Mar. 2022
  • This is an immense world of nighttime love and daytime rendezvous.
    — Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But even this search feels subdued, with bucks plodding, rather than trotting, to their next rendezvous.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 20 Oct. 2020
  • In episode two, Robert has a rendezvous with an older and richer woman in a limo.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2022
  • April 1st’s successful launch set up a rendezvous with the Moon.
    — Big Think, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Do your best to keep innocent passengers out of your rendezvous videos.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But as for any chance that this moon/Venus rendezvous might have any influence on our lives in any way, forget it.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Both teams slipped back into the desert night, meeting the navigator at a rendezvous point.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • This sauntering track illustrates a vivid scene of late night rendezvous and hotel rooms.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 30 July 2021
  • And images beamed back from that rendezvous only recently reached us on Earth.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
  • But shyness and cluelessness kept me from making my rendezvous with the guy that was to aid in that connection.
    — Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Read on to see a selection of gorgeous photos of the cosmic rendezvous, captured from around the world.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 May 2026
  • The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The right companion should understand your need to postpone a rendezvous for the time being.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Later in the evening, Nick also has a secret rendezvous with Tuello.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Venus, which is fresh off a rendezvous with the moon, is a frequent visitor in Earth's night sky, as is Jupiter.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • Taking care of your skin after the long rendezvous with makeup is just as important for recovery and skin health.
    — Alex Abel, Allure, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The life of a Domingo girl consists of vacations and secret rendezvous.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The rendezvous won’t have as much of the far lunar side illuminated as some other flyby dates would have.
    — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But news of the Affleck-Lopez rendezvous caught the internet by surprise.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021

rendezvous

2 of 2 verb
  • The cousins rendezvoused in New York before they flew to London.
  • The two would rendezvous and dock in lunar orbit.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • This time the dress traveled to Milan to rendezvous with Moore.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 4 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Interstellar Probe could rendezvous with another on its way off to the stars.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Then, the astronauts would rendezvous with the transfer stage to return to the Gateway.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 June 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
  • 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
  • Boeing attempted the flight once before, but was not able to rendezvous with the ISS.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • From there, Link will rendezvous with Swift, take hold of it with its three grappling arms and use its thrusters to carry it to a higher orbit.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 July 2026
  • And Martian samples are expected to rendezvous with Earth in 11 years.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The Orion and Blue Origin lander will rendezvous in space, and be docked together for about two days.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 9 June 2026
  • 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
  • The Orion capsule would rendezvous with the Starship in orbit around the moon and transfer two astronauts.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Heuermann was linked to those killings by burner phones used to rendezvous with the victims, as well as DNA from hairs found on some of the victims.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In a series of tests, the servicer satellite will attempt to rendezvous with the client spacecraft, dock with the object and then subsequently release it.
    — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the book, McKeon described noticing some of Onassis’ teenage cousins rendezvousing in her flower patch.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 14 May 2017
  • 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
  • At the same time, one or both of the two landers, launching on their own rockets, would then rendezvous with Orion in low-Earth orbit to test out docking in space.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026
  • 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

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