Example sentences for: confrontations

How can you use “confrontations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More to the point, Mamet can have himself a whale of a time directing a series of civilized confrontations that escalate in importance--from the young man who asks Winslow senior for his daughter's hand in marriage (and the precise amount of her dowry) to a cunning barrister, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), who uses every rhetorical trick he can think of to wear down a Parliament weary of a twopenny schoolboy scandal.

  • On June 24, fans at Seattle's Kingdome witnessed one of the most dramatic pitcher-hitter confrontations since Walter Johnson faced Babe Ruth.

  • Nation speakers soon appeared on major college campuses, grabbing headlines and sparking confrontations between black and Jewish students.

  • The New York Times worries about future "volatile confrontations" (read: nuclear warfare), and the Wall Street Journal bets the clash will aid Hindu nationalists in India's upcoming elections.

  • Bradley asked, in one of many direct confrontations.


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