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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:

I interviewed him recently, and found him to have a charm so forceful that it was akin to encountering a major climatic condition, which surprisingly few of the professionally famous do.
How could one not be astounded by the funny logic of, say, meeting one's match by encountering the shoestring of one's shoe: encontrarse con la herma de su zapato?
Though such words as betimes and whither and such forms as doth and hath have dropped out of ordinary usage, today's English-speaking reader of average education can read most of the Diary without encountering any word that would send him to his dictionary.
La horma [not “herma”] de su zapato does not mean `encountering the shoestring,' since horma means `shoemaker's last,' that is, the wooden form on which shoemakers build--or used to build--shoes.
Under no circumstances could she enter the living quarters without first encountering Secret Service agents.