Example sentences for: confronted

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

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

  • Co., 490 U.S. 504, 527-30 (1989) (Scalia, J., concurring) ("We are confronted here with a statute which, if interpreted literally, produces an absurd, and perhaps unconstitutional, result.

  • Civic leaders have at last confronted the truth: Peanuts are a menace to the American way of life.

  • The WP lead brings word that the Supreme Court, confronted with its first chance to take up the issue of a particular vexed type of late-term abortion, decided to punt, prompting an angry dissent from conservative justices Thomas, Rehnquist and Scalia.

  • Confronted with evidence of mass graves, Pinochet remarked that they represented a "great savings of cemetery space."


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