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.

  • Confronted with allegations about campaign-finance irregularities or with questions about her husband's business dealings, Ferraro has bobbed and weaved with Clintonian deftness: Hand out a few documents, hedge, cavil, deny, admit with explanation.

  • Sure enough, confronted with such a barrier in 1962, Khrushchev decided to give way.

  • 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.

  • But when Chatterbox actually got to the Metabolife Web site, he was confronted with an unbelievably complex "user agreement" requiring Chatterbox to promise in advance to eschew any "reproduction, broadcast, retransmissions, or nontransient storage" of the matter contained therein.


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