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Example sentences for: encountering

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I had asked Bennett whether we should find a spot where he would run no risk of catching flak by being seen with me; Bennett had indicated that he was not going to let the risk of encountering malicious gossipmongers dictate which bars he could frequent.
encontrarse con la horma [not “herma”] de su zapato `to meet one's match by encountering the shoe tree of one's shoe'
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.
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.
In mock-documentary fashion, the story of Emmet is relayed by jazz historians and critics--among them Ben Duncan, Nat Hentoff, and Allen himself--who set the scene for hilarious anecdotes about the guitarist's unreliability, profligacy, and terror of encountering Django Reinhardt.