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Definition of liaison:

  • (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
  • (noun) a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"

Sentence Examples:

American liaison officers at G.H.Q.

An American liaison plane was approaching.

An enterprising artillery liaison officer, Lt.

Be circumspect in your liaisons with women.

We carefully rehearsed our plans of liaison.

A French liaison officer called here this afternoon.

It forms a liaison with conscience, and affronts inclination.

I arranged that myself with the French liaison officer.

Troops on flanks of battalion and responsibility for liaison therewith.

With the support artillery (detachment of liaison, observatories, and rockets).

The liaison between the infantry and the artillery was faultless.

Jack had made out that liaisons were nothing more than licentious flirtations.

Hence, she was soon credited (or discredited) with a fresh liaison.

An American liaison officer obliged me with a mnemonic aid to their understanding.

No wonder the French officers in liaison have caught the new "code."

A liaison of a different kind is quite as needful in works of sheer imagination.

The "liaison officer" felt distinctly nervous as his steamboat approached the gangway.

There was the atmosphere of intrigue, of indiscreet liaison about almost every couple.

He knew of the very thing, and I was duly nominated for liaison.

The middleman outfits arrange for orderly and businesslike liaison between the two.

Dreadfully provoked with mother for her disgraceful liaison with her new coachman.

This necessitates very intimate liaison with the armies and with the departments concerned.

Of all the drab, dull, and disproportionately long liaisons, that one was unique!

Coy, as long as the liaison was not known, needed protection; they were white.

His liaison with the Marchioness de Mounier surpasses, in fact, all stories of romance.

Amazed at this unsuspected liaison, he turned to regard with favor the immense mural.

"Or had this liaison gone too far by this time for you to feel embarrassed?"

In the intimacies of either a liaison or matrimony that supreme delusion is soon scattered, ma ch?re.

They accuse the wife of a disgraceful liaison, and the queen of the most infamous selfishness.

By moving to a less exposed position or to a dugout his liaison would have been impaired.

Doubtless this was false, but the princess had abundant liaisons not much more reputable.

I know that to withdraw honorably from such a liaison requires all the strength of reason.

Their liaison aroused the jealousy of the Queen, who banished the Duchess to her country home.

The last things (of Butter, bread, flower) cause the liaison and thickening of the liquor.

Holladay was a victim of blackmail, or that he had ever had a liaison with a woman?

In order to escape poison fumes, dogs of the liaison have to be trained to wear masks, like soldiers.

This guilty liaison continued until one day the male, returning unexpectedly, became convinced of her infidelity.

I had raised her to such a pinnacle of worship that a liaison was not to be contemplated.

One of his attendants was found to be guilty of a liaison with a slave in his harem.

A conventional marriage on the last page legalizes what would otherwise have been a liaison or a degenerate flirtation.

To what else, it is asked, can such extraordinary expressions refer unless to some disgraceful personal liaison?

He had placed himself on a special pedestal, from which such a liaison would involve a fall.

In fact one might call them studies in the etiquette of the liaison and all its nuances.

Hamilton had great consideration for her, and never risked having her affronted because of the liaison.

Her liaison with Saint-Lambert continued fifty years, nor was she ever suspected of any other indiscretion.

Their uncouth manners, foreign mistresses, and decidedly heavy liaisons had no charm for either eye or fancy.

The slender liaison of affection is often stronger and more durable than the massive chains of matrimony.

A liaison with one of the impure castes is the only offense entailing permanent expulsion from social intercourse.

Perhaps he meant to rouse my jealousy without reflecting that this liaison had in my eyes nothing dishonorable.

This liaison, of which Ferdinand soon became distrustful, did not last as long as it was desired to.

Finish the sauce with a liaison of two yolks of eggs mixed with half a gill of cream.

Dissolute friends, vulgar liaisons, a fatal taste for the theater, corrupted him from day to day.

Vinson's heart was in this liaison: he persuaded himself that the chain that bound them was indissoluble.

Their liaison, which is recounted hereafter, lasted two years, and even after they separated their friendship continued.

She had conscientiously told her daughter of a liaison which had formerly been the unhappiness of the Baron.

Assuredly, one who observed such nicety in his carving must have been extremely painstaking in compounding his liaisons.

The liaison caused immeasurable suffering to the gentle soul of Weber, and was the last of his purging fires.

How he had discharged that important trust previous to his liaison with the notorious ballerina we are unable to say.

She did not seem to notice this finish of a long liaison slowly spun out, and ending in mutual insolence.

The entourage, with its gossip, its small talk, its liaisons, excited in her only indifference and occasional loathing.

"The Dominion men, many of them, are too touchy," says an officer who has come back from a liaison visit.

I remembered the usual termination of Platonic liaisons, and thought how disgusted I had been whenever I heard of one.

The story of cruelty to his wife grew in its enormity, his reported liaisons multiplied beyond all human reason.

Units were carefully rehearsed in their parts, and their liaison worked out by staffs that had long operated together.

In their English it makes the expression swallow up the words, a wind driving through them continuously ... liaison.

This liaison was running its ephemeral course just at the time when accident made him acquainted with his future wife.

In returning to the subject of this liaison, few particulars can be adduced which would not appear trite and stale.

If he really must have a liaison of this sort, it looks as if he would get on quite tolerably with this one

On the other hand, so far as I know, it is extremely rare to observe a permanent liaison between two pronounced inverts.

This obscure liaison seems not to have afflicted him with the remorse which his purer attachment for Laura caused him.

Not until her yearning for him brings Cleopatra to the brink of the grave, is the liaison between them formed.

A Princess may have a liaison with a peasant, and in the shadow of that dishonor she will remain forever a Princess.

Every man is his own master in his choice of liaisons, and on that head is answerable only to his own conscience.

A storm buffeted the formation, and after the seas grew calm, the boat carrying the Army air liaison party broke down.

One was that I should form a liaison with some married lady; the other that I should become an adjutant to the Tsar.

Either the technical and service departments of each firm had to be considerably strengthened, or else a special organization had to cover these functions by employing a considerable government technical and liaison personnel.

We have not taken into consideration the army of women who maintain superficial respectability, who live at homes, some of them with husbands and children, and who yielding to temptation are carrying on liaisons.

This is the job of the combat propaganda unit, with its high-speed press, its liaison with both ground and air forces, its up-to-the-minute intelligence on enemy movements, situation, and order of battle.

Unfortunately, she possessed in addition to a superior and cultivated mind, a very ardent temperament, and gossip soon became busy with her name, especially after her liaison with Count de Nieuwekerke became a recognized fact.

How a matron of her age should have allowed the friendship of the commencement to develop into a liaison is one of those problems of sexual psychology easier to describe in Balzac's own language than to explain rationally.

Again, even where no second mate intervenes to complicate the question, the observer may be confronted with delicate problems; at what point, for example, does a mere liaison pass into something worthy of the name of marriage?

Of him we know nothing, save that, after the liaison had lasted some months, he died suddenly, an event which occasioned his mistress such terrible grief that she is said to have seriously contemplated destroying herself.

I organized myself a sort of miniature police force within a police force and I have liaison officers in every organization down to Sector Regional so that I can be informed promptly in case anything new turns up anywhere.

Their forward observation officers maintained a liaison with the H.Q. of the infantry battalions, and in addition to courageous work in searching for targets and correcting gun fire they showed the greatest consideration for our needs.

The conversation ranged from art to religion, from religion to style, from style to women, and all with a perpetual recurrence either to the pictures and successes of the Salon, or to the liaisons of well-known artists.

She is thus able to refer all matters calling for attention direct to the General Manager, and may be regarded by him as a liaison between him and the various Departments dealing with the women employees.

They were a criterion for judging his balance of assets for continuing the attacks, though they did not include the exhaustion of the men, their mood of the moment, or the disruption of liaison of their units.

Owing to the difficulty of liaison in the thickets of the wood, and because of the almost impossible task of directing it in conjunction with the advancing lines, the artillery preparation for the attack was necessarily brief.

Necessity may unite a young and elegant woman to an old and vulgar husband, but a liaison, such as that attributed to the young girl and the bourgeois of the terrace, can only result from love or interest.

His wide travel experience and his realization of the necessity of good highways as well as good hotels in the development of scenic attractions, made him the logical choice at a later date as liaison officer for the Union Pacific Railroad.

Whether the canon was really more earnest than the majority of his order, and therefore sincerely shocked at the thought of the liaison, or whether it had disturbed some other project he had formed, it is impossible to say.

I realized that she was justified in joking me about my serious air, which was not at all consistent with our former liaison, and which might have led one to think that I expected to find a Penelope in a young milliner.

Fine as were the fighting qualities of the formations and units that took part in it, the most remarkable aspects which stand out when we look back upon it are the perfection of its organization and of the liaison between all arms.

The result was confusion and overlapping, and the attempt to remedy these evils by the creation of a staff of liaison officers under the control of the Prime Minister had very imperfect success, and in some respects only added to the confusion.

He offered a heavy bribe to one of her confidential attendants, well known to him in the days of their liaison, and prevailed on her to introduce him into the saloon, where the King would visit Madame de Montespan before supper, that very afternoon.

It is impossible not to hazard a guess, although we know nothing for certain on the point, that his motive for so doing was connected in some way with the almost tragic ending of the liaison between his sister and the French captain.

He thought perhaps for a moment that he was in another world; but this was no time for vain regrets, for the teacher had them in his grip, and was cross-examining the frightened Juliet as to how many months their liaison had continued.

I should be glad if she would not ask me for love after a liaison of ten years' standing, at a time when we are both nearly forty years old, and after I have declared, times out of number, that I have no longer any love to give her.

It will surprise no one to learn that a few months later Byron himself put an end to the liaison; his love had never been anything but the kind of reflected love which imitates in a mirror all the motions of the flame, without fire of its own.

And when I had kissed her, and kissed her again, for hers was not the riddle to be solved by one touch of the lips, the thing did not take on the air of a liaison, it was not a surprising and stolen pleasure, it was just natural.