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How to use the word rapport in a Sentence?

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Diplomacy is about relationships. ( Biden) builds a rapport with the first spouses and it matters, it helps to break the ice and establish some familiarity with each other, and in private moments share Jill Biden husband's positions. Jill Biden build some greater mutual understanding, hopefully.

Anita McBride

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have a great rapport here, I have a great thing here with everybody in the building and obviously everybody on the field as well, i wasn't trying to auction off to the highest bidder at the end of the day. This was comfortable. This was a great, great destination for me, and I was clear about that throughout this whole process.

Braxton Berrios

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She and I used to have a good rapport, but my mother wouldn’t let me take her in the house, so I had to build a cage for her outside.

Sam Baker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One of the best ways to improve rapport with the community is to solve the case.

Peter Scharf

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He would confer with us on the sideline during crucial timeouts, and we’d give him a play, and he’d say, ‘No, no, no, I feel good about this play,’ and it would work, he had that kind of rapport and knowledge of the game.

Chuck Long

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can make phone calls all you want and you can meet with people online via Zoom call but it is just not the same as being able to reach out your hand and shake their hand, look them in the eye and really establish that rapport.

Dave McClain

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It started several years ago back in 2018 when we went to interview him about another homicide, which he did not take credit for because he had nothing to do with it. And then, after that, it was just keeping in touch with him over the course of the next several years, just keeping a rapport with him.

Joshua Black

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

Jan Smuts

added by acronimous
4 years ago

Medical mistrust has been an important barrier to African-Americans seeking health care, and so the barbershop -- where men go on a monthly basis and have an opportunity to develop a rapport with a trusted key opinion leader in the community -- that rapport is a perfect foundation for talking about health, we know that when it comes to people being receptive to health messages, the setting and the mood that people are in can have an impact on how open they are to receiving those messages.

Joseph Ravenell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think Putin will be wonderful at this to say 'Oh My God, we had such great rapport, we just get along so well,' -- that is all that Trump really wants.

Kenneth Adelman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Trump gave up lots of things and got absolutely nothing from the North Koreans except for one thing, which was the one thing he wanted -- enormous flattery, i think Putin will be wonderful at this to say 'Oh My God, we had such great rapport, we just get along so well,' -- that is all that Trump really wants.

Kenneth Adelman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I want to be able to meet with government officials, try to establish some rapport, talk about common interest, talk about common problem. some say it's in shambles.

John Kennedy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think there's value having gone this far, there's value in meeting and greeting, gripping and grinning, and just establishing a rapport. I think yes, it would be important to have the summit.

James Clapper

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's a strong rapport on the anti-jihadist war and that will continue because France, of course, is at the core of this, both on its territory and in the Middle East, and Trump -- to him, White House state dinner's very important. Donald Trump thinks there are terrorists everywhere, even with relatively few attacks in the US compared to Europe.

Le Corre

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Uncertainty is the bane of good management. And there's an awful lot of uncertainty right now, an acting person is a bit like the substitute teacher. They may be a wonderful teacher, but the fact that they're the substitute teacher means they get no respect, they have no perceived authority to solve things, they don't set the lesson plan, and you also don't build the same kind of rapport with your peers across government, which is also super important.

Max Stier

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I really do believe in my heart of hearts that we have a really great rapport with our community overall. They know that if there’s a problem, they can come and talk to us.

Police Chief Mike Chitwood

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We already realised that they had a sort of absolute and volcanic rapport, so we tried to show that in a film, it should show something.

Benoit Delepine

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They may as well have a sign that says, ‘Don’t approach me’, or ‘I don’t want to be here', they need to be the ones to create a rapport.

David Spark

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I try to establish a rapport and establish the client's intentions for hypnosis.

Wesley Anderson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I walked in the room and I looked at his face and I remembered, 'Oh my God, he's so young.' Which he is, i sensed he was very respectful, and I felt it was pretty easy to establish a rapport.

Helen Prejean

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The effort to build up rapport with Muslims in the U.S. is predicated on the idea that you're worried about the community and you want them to trust law enforcement more and be more willing to give information about people who may be radicalizing.

William McCants

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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