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Example sentences for: encountering

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

encontrarse con la horma [not “herma”] de su zapato `to meet one's match by encountering the shoe tree of one's shoe'
Bush squints into the teleprompter, sounding out the words streaming by as if encountering them for the first time.
The next time that set of differentia is encountered, it serves to identify the problem in much the same way that a physician, encountering a combination of chest rash, high fever, Koplik's spots, diagnoses (for which read `names') an affliction as measles.
The chances of meeting a sophisticated Upper West Side woman in New York who would fall for a line like that are about as remote as encountering a singing possum in your basement, but Kidman's character continues to flirt with this loser during the longest and most excruciating dance scene in movie history.
Criteria and phenomena, heard everywhere as singles, are encountering stern opposition from people who take care to speak of a grafitto, but never say a confetto.