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Definition of tryst
1 : an agreement (as between lovers) to meet
2 : an appointed meeting or meeting place
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Examples of tryst in a Sentence
both lovers had to hurry to keep their noontime tryst in the park
Recent Examples of tryst from the Web
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Before her tryst with Yorn, Johansson and Jost were seen kissing in May at Saturday Night Live‘s season finale afterparty, Page Six reported.
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He was married to designer Barbara Feltus at the time of the tryst.
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Of course, Kushner can’t help that his dad went to federal prison about a decade ago for evading taxes and taking revenge on his sister by hiring a prostitute to seduce her husband and sending her a videotape of the tryst.
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Significant amounts of time were taken up with what seem like character-development subplots, such as Doug’s tryst with Laura Moretti, the widow of the man denied a liver transplant thanks to Doug last season.
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Laura Linney, one of the only American castmembers from the original film, whose character engages in a steamy tryst with a younger male co-worker, also made an appearance.
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The rift leads to scheming and swordplay aplenty, with some time left over for old-fashioned bodice-ripping trysts.
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Desna lives life to the fullest, both with her colleagues and with her smooth-talking, heavily-tattooed lover, Roller (Jack Kesy), who feels perfectly comfortable dropping into the salon during business hours for a steamy tryst with Desna.
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Federal officials learned of the online tryst between Weiner and the then-15-year-old, high school sophomore’s last September through a story by the British tabloid, the Daily Mail.
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Origin and Etymology of tryst
Middle English triste appointed station for hunters, probably from trist, trust confidence, trust
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tryst
verb
Definition of tryst
intransitive verb
: to make or keep a tryst
First Known Use of tryst
14th century
TRYST Defined for English Language Learners
tryst
play
noun
Definition of tryst for English Language Learners
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: a meeting by lovers at a secret time or place
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