Example sentences for: confronted

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

  • Who is not immediately put on guard when confronted with statements introduced by "Frankly ...

  • Sometimes Skeat's tactic when confronted, either with evidence of error--which occurred very rarely indeed--or with a complaint about his overbearing lack of tolerance of those who knew less than he or had committed the unpardonable sin of failing to have both his books and the latest fascicle of the OED at hand, was to go all soft with humility.

  • "Such a crucial problem as immigration can only be confronted in a spirit of bipartisanship, in which the government and the opposition undertake not to treat it as an ideological question or to use it as a political weapon," Corriere said.

  • Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when confronted on Face the Nation with the charge that the bombing had backfired.

  • Pauline Kael used to say it was to be caught up, swept away, surfeited by sensation, and confronted by reality.


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