Example sentences for: encountered

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

  • Provided that the user makes sure to double-check the information in both books and is not tempted to accept as gospel everything encountered in either work, both books should be considered useful additions to a reference library.

  • The piece goes on to note that in a recent study made in Washington, D.C., when 150 pairs of black and white testers who were matched in income contacted local lenders, they encountered evidence of racial discrimination 41 percent of the time.

  • Kruszewski reflected upon the problems he said he had encountered in Pennsylvania, saying that “there is no accountability in the system for oversight [agencies].”

  • Not everyone can always be sure of everything, but it has always seemed to me that one of the functions of education is to implant doubt in a student's mind: in other words, it is not so important that he remember, a dozen years after leaving school, what a dangling modifier, split infinitive, agreement between the number of a subject and its verb, etc., might mean, but the process of education should have created a (minor) circuit in the brain of the pupil so that when a certain situation is encountered later on, he acknowledge a nagging suspicion that there might be something wrong and that it would be best were he to look it up in an authoritative source to see what is written there by people who know such things.

  • 6 Å C α RMSD when only the best fragments are considered), it is clear that devising representations that will allow us to explore protein conformational space such that near-native conformations are encountered is a major bottleneck.


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