Example sentences for: confronted

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

  • The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.

  • Until Dobbs confronted her with evidence of her ancestry and of the deaths of her relatives in the Holocaust, Albright seems to have lived in a state of willed ignorance, declining to challenge her parents' account of the past.

  • The sad truth, Jarvis told the Post , was that "people have confronted Gary about the appearance of impropriety."

  • But when Chatterbox actually went to the Web site, he was confronted by an elaborate "user agreement" that essentially threatened to sue anyone who used the information on the Web site for journalistic purposes.

  • 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.


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