face to face

Speech parts

1. face to face - Noun

2. face to face - Adjective

3. face to face - Adverb

4. face to face - Phrase

5. face to face - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

involving close contact; confronting each other

within each other's presence

directly facing each other

in each other's presence

Alternative names

face-to-face

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Examples

After our death, when we come face to face with Christ, we will understand the why and how of our lives and we will be told everything we went through in this world. Then, with all the power of our existence, we will say to Him, "Thank you, my God, for allowing these for me!" Paisios of Mount Athos

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. James Russell Lowell

And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad. Billy Joel

For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face. David Zindell

Even the brave are scared by a lion three times: first by its tracks, again by its roar, and one last time face to face. Somali Proverb

A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face. Somali Proverb

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