TRYST in a Sentence

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1. Our tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.
2. It was not the place which she would have chosen for a tryst such as she hoped this one would be.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRYST
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tryst
 n.  secret meeting; agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place
Classic Sentence:
1  It was not the place which she would have chosen for a tryst such as she hoped this one would be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She put an her tweed coat and rubber overshoes, considering how honest and hopeless are rubbers, how clearly their chaperonage proved that she wasn't going to a lovers' tryst.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  When he had got as close as he might safely venture without discovery he found that, owing to a cross-wind, the conversation of the trysting pair could not be overheard.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Example Sentence:
1  Our tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.