How To Use Encounter In A Sentence

A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
Consider some of the specific encounters Blue has with women Gareth is involved with. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: Questions
Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
We encounter a patient with recurrent jaundice resulting from tumor ingrowth to the metallic stent.
WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance plane last week in the Gulf of Oman. Iranian Military Plane 'Buzzes' U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

Slow the airplane to reduce impact forces; also, you'll likely encounter wind shear and strong downdrafts.
The winners of these two encounters will contest the final from 7pm. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, a small number of participants discussed their experiences with gender-bending - that is, pretending to be of the opposite sex - during an online sexual encounter.
It's great that she was able to tie up Super Smize's narrative, since half of these girls would have been so confused if they just encountered her in plainclothes without an explanation. Taking the boot off
And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
The fact that they are harmless plankton feeders in no way diminishes the adrenaline rush; the ease with which you can approach them makes that rare encounter even more exciting.
Another dream tells of an encounter with a being who held four keys, and bore the wings of a kingfisher.
She also outlined another misconception that could explain the suspicion research nurses often encounter among other nurses.
Had there, despite Terry Gill's denials, been an encounter?
A young sea captain's future is transformed as he encounters mutiny, adventure and a beautiful fugitive in this romantic thriller set during an epic voyage to Shanghai.
"Without a doubt," I said, "You're the most beautiful dip I've ever encountered."
You can't know how well you will perform under stress until you encounter it.
Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
The hole in her shimmery gold nylons from her encounter with the Pekingese didn't add to her self-confidence. KISS AN ANGEL
But somehow this latest encounter with Matthew had been even more disturbing than their encounter in the cupboard.
The ants were the most prolific of the insects we were likely to encounter daily.
Though I must say that when I've encountered such things, I could not help sending a rather pointed letter about plagiarism and its extreme inadvisability. Exactly.
Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
He thereby provides both a theology of the resurrection and a theology of the liturgy: one encounters the risen Christ in the word and in the sacrament; divine service is the fashion in which he becomes touchable to us and recognizable as the living Christ. The book by Joseph Ratzinger that "changed history"
We topped the rise, encountering more of that lumberman 's desolation on the other side.
Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws. CHAPTER XX
He also booked seven players during the spikiest of encounters. Times, Sunday Times
To a soundtrack of cooking tips, paedophilia newsflashes and outtakes from the film Brief Encounter, she tries to seduce a stuffed tiger, intercutting her swaying flamenco with mad, petulant little flounces. Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster
One night, after sampling a strange concoction made from the rose petals collected from Croxleys Wood, Geoff encounters the beautiful Rosemary.
Looking like film noir stills, these photographs were nighttime shots of the actual sites where the fateful encounters between police and civilians occurred.
Among the sofas I encounter a perspex case containing a sleek-looking chair.
It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
The internal debate within the Provisional movement has encountered some difficulties.
After the bill was sent to me, I had an extraordinary encounter with the young NRA lobbyist who came down from Washington to push the bill.
However ecstatic expression is performed, its most enthusiastic performance spontaneously tunes and readies us to experience the divine and encounter the mysterium tremendum. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
This trek also marked our first encounter with leeches.
Two of the ballet's encounters stood out, imbued with a kind of artistic brilliance befitting their underlying influence.
The Christians however seemed to be a quite different species, unlike any other foreign belief system they had yet encountered.
From the outset, she is not sure she will survive this touchy encounter with a legendary fisherman who taught her everything she knows and is one tough, crusty character.
When encountering headachy thing to generate undesirable sentiment, not oppressed in the heart, and should think way its sparse release comes out.
When this happens, we will encounter a strange blurring of the edges between virtual and true realities.
She first encountered the phenomenon when one of her colleagues from the Top End related the story of a man who was evacuated from an outstation with a deteriorating medical condition.
If I encounter a gentleman in such a state of déshabillé, I generally point and raise an eyebrow.
They encountered serious problems when two members of the expedition were injured.
The 'surfboat' was about a quarter of a mile offshore 125 miles north of Sydney when the crew, most of who have been volunteer surf lifesavers for just a few months, encountered the shark. Home | Mail Online
In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering. On being called a bigot and/or racist
In what was a hard-fought encounter, the Dubliners played an uncompromising game under both boards.
`Oh hullo, Darrow," I said as if I had encountered him by chance at a garden party. ULTIMATE PRIZES
The Ministry of Home Affairs, also look and rethink over the existing involvement, efficiency, effectivity and also carrying and delivery capacity of chief district officer, who are the chief of district security system, to encounter the state of occlusion. Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
Merkel went on television last night to try and limit the political fallout from her colleague's remarks, but she has encountered a barrage of criticism.
From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Your domestic scene seems to have encountered some minor problems. The Sun
Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture. Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain
They encounter some small groups of orcs away from the great army and they slay them quickly.
Through such volumes many Americans first encountered hymns that were to become part of the standard repertory. Christianity Today
Boats fostered unusually intimate encounters because of the enforced idleness of travel and because of their physical isolation.
Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
RETURN-DETAIL/ - is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to submit the package for approval.
His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
Impacts on Earth differ from those on Mars in that terrestrial impacts have a high likelihood of encountering an ocean.
Remarkably, the argument of the outermost is a repetitive appends operation and it has only linear complexity with P1 reverse () operations, but each of them is of linear complexity, so the total complexity of implementing my: prepend-iter () we have demonstrated is a simplified case of the many different real world scenarios we may encounter that will require repetitive prepends. Planet XML
She miraculously encountered the prison dungeon and entered to get some answers.
That much we can take away from this latest close encounter with planet Nirvana without fear of contradiction.
Mrs Major was with two girlfriends before the chance encounter.
The esophagoscope encounters only the diaphragmatic pinchcock which seems to be at the top of the stomach like the puckering string at the top of a bag. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
So rarely do our financial worlds collide that this week's benefit cuts made for some bruising encounters online. Times, Sunday Times
Turtles Forever, wherein the aughties heroes encounter their retro-'80s selves. Wired Top Stories
The book is an amusing and evocative portrayal of his journey and his encounters with Indian babudom and other normal Indians on the way.
One of the most important aspects of paleobotany is establishing relationships between the organisms that we encounter in the fossil record.
The studio was filled with the same chattering and babble of languages that I had encountered upon my arrival. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head. The Garden of Allah
His stay in Italy, where he encountered Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, was decisive for his art.
There I encountered a marked divergence of views.
As winds sweep these chemical pockets into middle latitudes they encounter sunlight and trigger rapid ozone destruction.
He is a perfect rat in appearance, but he would rather astonish one of our English tom-cats if encountered during his rambles in search of rats, as the "bandicoot" is about the same size as the cat. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
A chance encounter in Moravia had provided him with a patron who was willing to fund his studies.
Some components of the vegan and fruitarian diets are frequent causes of allergies, but allergy caused by pork or chicken meat is rarely if ever encountered.
In Kekexili, he encountered large groups of female antelopes with their offspring.
The problems which are likely to be encountered in attempting to mesh such divergent data are both technical and philosophical.
And there are no bugs there, like the one I encountered yesterday when the Hasbro game refused to let my friend Austin play, and I'm serious about this, play the word, scarabaei - S-C-A-R-A-B-A-E-I, which is the plural form of scarab, a beetle. Word Score! Scrabulous Returns As Lexulous
Do your sexual encounters place you in danger of arrest for lewd conduct or public indecency?
These encounters can be quite violent and frequently result in the labellum being torn from the flower.
But at the time, all thoughts of tempo totally vanished as the senses encountered a rare flux of movement. Times, Sunday Times
He soon encountered a girl of about ten, who was selling limeade at a sidewalk stand. Heart vs. Head
The first problem McCall encountered on his return was a severely depleted player roll.
Certainly, every type of matter we have ever encountered feels the attractive force of gravity.
She's evidently remembering her previous encounter with a gun.
Beyond this pathos concerning the relation of political and theological liberalism, we encounter another paradox. The Times Literary Supplement
Sami initially sees his love for Muntaha in poetic terms, likening her beauty and allure to the Sumerian artefacts in front of which he first encounters her, an orientalization that is later echoed by Gabor. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
Nowadays croustades are considered old-fashioned in France; they may still be encountered on buffet tables at grand receptions, or as an accompaniment to drinks.
The convoy itself encountered numerous difficulties; mechanical and logistical problems were compounded by stormy clashes of personality.
Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
This one promises to be a thrilling encounter. Times, Sunday Times
His was the good fortune to witness Sheppard's encounter with the topsman, and to shrive the battered soul of Jonathan Wild. A Book of Scoundrels
Warping, splitting along the grain, the breaking apart of joins, the flaking of paint and ground from the wooden substrate, and insect damage are all commonly encountered.
It may be that some people you encounter are so deeply ingrained with malice, avarice, mendacity and all the perversity our heritage can inflict on us that they are beyond redemption.
We encounter Judd before the rest of the minimalists and Clyfford Still after his fellow abstract expressionists.
The difficulties women encounter with their doctors partly explain why so many of us are looking to alternative therapies.
Observation of intraspecies variations reveals that you are just as likely to encounter R/C kits, musclecars, bathroom hydroponics, child porn, and Nintendos as you would a bicycle. Cult Following: Harbingers of the Apocalypse
Their principal enemy is the leopard, but even leopards will avoid an encounter with the larger, adult males who are courageous and vicious adversaries.
Keira's last dalliance with the Pirates franchise (she's not returning for Part IV) failed to resolve any off the major problems that Dead Man's Chest encountered.
One of my favourites, this is a light hearted piece inspired by a chance encounter at a private party with a man then at the height of his power in the country; I was fascinated beyond words by the effect he had on the would-be urbane and aspiringly sophisticated! Archive 2007-05-01
But here we encounter another paradox that suggests we are indeed at a critical inflection point for policy and for markets.
Love is a kind of chance encounter, and one can neither waiting nor preparing for it.
It's too late to rethink sharing your encounters, cupcake, because you've already done it.
The problem I have encountered with the speed bumps is the brat pack that hangs about on the corner of Keswick Street.
Towards the end of my little encounter with Sophie Ward we argue about whether or not she is argumentative.
Ms. Wang's keen classical furniture had encountered such a sales force. Ms.
There are many cleaning stations here and you will often encounter a large potato cod or pelagics such as jacks and barracuda visiting, in addition to the resident reef fish.
On my first dive with new digital camera housing in South Harbour at the Poor Knights Islands I encounter a striped boarfish with a long-finned boarfish.
He'd had the most compelling eyes she'd ever encountered.
It was in these vales that the Saxons of the plain and the Gad of the mountains had many a desperate and bloody encounter, in which it was frequently impossible to decide the palm of victory between the mailed chivalry of the low country and the plaided clans whom they opposed. The Fair Maid of Perth
It was considered to be an essential encounter with the centre of your being.
During the Battle of Thule, the Harvester was targeted by Anakin Skywalker during the final encounter with the Dark Reaper.
Along the way we encountered straggly herds of llamas and occasional wild dogs.
They were victims of morbific agents encountered at work.
One of the strangest fish you might encounter in spring is the male lumpsucker, which is left in shallow water guarding and nurturing his egg clutch after mating.
Its pages are full of wide-ranging reminiscences about encountering the writing as well as the writer. The Times Literary Supplement
The only issue I've encountered is that the bread stales fast, and I'm never able to eat the whole loaf quickly enough (unless I am being particularly gluttonous). Is That Legal?: March 2008 Archives
Your story Have you or a loved one encountered problems with continuing healthcare? Times, Sunday Times
Encountering the art of Roxy Paine, we always expect to be dazzled by the technical intricacy and detail of the work, while being seduced by it's beauty to closely approach despite a hint of menace. Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Magic Mushrooms and a Tree of Steel -- Roxy Paine @ James Cohan Gallery
The result is a dot that behaves as if it were one giant superatom within which electrons flow freely, encountering no electrical resistance. New Scientist - Online News
She had to limp through the final stages of the epic encounter, warding off cramp.
Unlike cacao and coffee, yerba mate was not a domestic plant when first encountered by Europeans.
In any event, for whatever reason, humanity first began to encounter the virus during the 1960s and 1970s.
It amazed the Comanche, who remembered that encounter for generations.
He has never encountered any tame animals besides dogs.
It can be comforting to encounter the familiar faces of cats and dogs and farm animals in foreign lands.
Before our modern era most people who had encounters knew that what they were dealing with were daemons, dragons, gnomes, fairies and trolls.
The difficulties encountered in investigations did not excuse wrongdoing on the part of gardaí, Mr McDowell said.
It can even work out quick detours around traffic jams and roadworks, if you encounter any, Evesham said.
As soon as we encounter rules, it seems to be human nature to start to get very clever about finding ways to gratify our desires even within the parameters of the rules.
So for example, where we found the buried hulk of the Gold Rush storeship General Harrison, or when we encounter a prehistoric site with human burials, like CA-SFR-114, there's no doubt that the client is going to curse the day he ever met me. Digging San Francisco
Lem, neocon may or may not be shorthand for Jews in some media circles, but in any circle you encounter, "jackass" is shorthand for Joe Klein. "Prince of Darkness Denies Own Existence."
They're also a fair bit hardier in terms of taking damage; for example, it can require multiple headshots to defeat them, which can make these encounters feel rather more arcade-like than the rest of the game.
It showed a puerile and imbecilic side of the internet that I've never encountered before - and hope never to again.
Sadly it wasn't quite enough to break down the watertight Rovers defence and as the play ended, the hooter signalled the end of a quite remarkable encounter.
Two other endangered birds, the swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) and the regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phyrigia), were regularly seen in the region 20 to 30 years ago but are now rarely if ever encountered. Naracoorte woodlands
Urine-borne chemical cues influence the progression and outcome of agonistic encounters in lobsters and crayfish.
She has her matchmaking work cut out for her when she encounters the pretty but hoydenish Lady Deborah Western.
This is just one of an extraordinary sequence of curious encounters between orcas and divers in the waters off New Zealand.
Once you are outside of Moscow or Sofia you can encounter difficulties getting from one place to another.
I didn't encounter Nutella again for a decade. 1996 is remembered both as the year I left home and the year Ferrero brought out The Simpsons collectable Nutella glasses.
It seems to work just fine, doesn't it, your ability to drown your emotions in empty sexual encounters.
The whilk Swedish feathers, although they look gay to the eye, resembling the shrubs or lesser trees of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia behind them, correspond to the tall pines thereof, yet, nevertheless, are not altogether so soft to encounter as the plumage of a goose. A Legend of Montrose
We can speak of encountering, sometimes in the most unlikely settings, dynamics most succinctly described as "Proustian," "Austenesque" and "Kafkan. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Now, it is conceivable that Hume encountered these texts, and recognized their propaedeutic value, only after completing his Treatise; but this bare possibility (the letter was written two years before its publication) is absolutely ruled out in the case of Bayle, if not of the other texts Hume names, by Hume's so-called early memoranda and especially by the use This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere
When growth cones encounter guidance cues or asymmetric environments, signaling changes may also affect filopodial motility and distribution or microtubule engorgement to guide subsequent growth cone motility.
But porn plenaries make for unorthodox encounters. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
He has overcome the problem he says many people encounter that of ending up in undemanding, badly-paid jobs.
Patrick-street, Dublin -- the lady who used to boast of her "bag of farthin's," and regale herself before each encounter with a pennorth of the "droppin's o 'the cock. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell
I've killed my share of Wisconsin turkeys and have never encountered a pinfeather. Wait. Why was this duck taken to the hospital?
When the psychologist attempts to employ statistical methods her encounters the usual obscurantist notion that you can prver anything with statistics.
South African paper wasps, or hornets as they are also called, are often encountered underneath overhangs such as the eaves of roofs but do not form very big groups.
It was a cruel drawback to her hopes to see him first thus in public: but the manner of Mrs. Arlbery at the hotel, he had thought repulsive; he had observed that she seemed offended with him since the rencounter at the breakfast given for Miss Dennel; and he now wished for some encouragement for renewing his rights to the acquaintance. Camilla
When you decide that you have the right to taunt someone, you have no idea what kind of marginalization that they have put up with before encountering you. Archive 2009-11-01
Ben, an awkward adolescent, is closer to being a successfully evolved man than the grown ones he encounters.
These formal encounters are always an awkward mixture of grandstanding and highly technical wrangling about the terms of trade. Times, Sunday Times
I shudder to think of the way my small, insignificant encounter would be treated today.
I first encountered Patti Smith's music in 1985, at the age of seventeen.
Her first encounter excuse the pun , friendly encounter with Mumbai Police began from Mr Shatrughan Sinhas house , that she visits with me , she will salute and shake hands with his security the khaki force including the plainclothesmen sitting below. Archive 2009-10-01
In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
Imagine a German citizen coming to Russia with no language, no concept of the native culture, with every detail he encounters feeling to him completely foreign.
The convention seminars became encounter groups. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
I had never encountered such resistance before.
In my case this ‘dark corner’ is a shanty town inhabited by the ghosts of yesteryear, already categorised by my failed personal encounters.
Instead, the film cuts to some months ahead as Everett encounters Beechum at a local shopping mall.
Many groups have the familiar XX female, XY male system encountered in most mammals, but others, such as birds and butterflies, have heterogametic ZW females and homogametic ZZ males.
Resistance in V. cholerae is being encountered in most of the endemic areas 37,38.
Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Conversation is an encounter of metanoia, or it is not a conversation, not in the true sense of the word.
There is a glorious passage by Henry Thoreau of his encounter with a nightjar relative called a nighthawk. Country diary: Holt, Norfolk
Approaching the end of the channel, we found that the German couple who had pushed on ahead had encountered a more vigorous current and were clinging to the reef, their bodies extended like banners in the slipstream.
He also described ‘a gay sexual encounter in explicit and derogatory terms’ from the pulpit.
The encounter ends in a draw and everyone, young and old, is friends again.
The grip never loosens, nor is that face ever revealed, in "El Sicario, Room 164," a documentary based on Mr. Bowden's encounter with a Juarez, Mexico hitman—or sicario . Hits, Misses and Misters
Further up the slope, the going gets tougher as the scree run is encountered.
Unexpected encounters with old friends could inspire some New Year resolutions for you. The Sun
LAST time we encountered the eccentric but endearing Texan he had chronic back pain. The Sun
The occurrence of this specimen in nearshore beach deposits is somewhat unusual, as articulated or associated remains of Cretaceous sea turtles are more commonly encountered in lagoonal or offshore marine shale and chalk.
This case is the one encountered herein, and therefore the method used to code the outgroup stands on solid theoretical grounds.
I also seem to recall that Clarke said this encounter included him and other unnamed persons.
(No close encounters though) We are in space already and the shuttle is a cover up for the masses. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6212
The only other smell you are likely to encounter that could be confused with badger musk is that of the fox.
As much as this blow-by-blow battlemodo shows you all the problems we encountered, the big picture is that really, mobile web is pretty dandy right now, and getting dandier. Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
Others felt that their names emerged tarnished from the encounter. Times, Sunday Times
The ammunition encountered by the soldiers was called canister, one of the war's most deadliest rounds.
We encountered a murder of crows sitting on the road.
The head of an adult male is often heavily marked with circular scars from encounters with squid suckers.
Just as it looks like the spy is about to complete his mission and escape, he is gunned down by Major John Casey, an NSA agent who has encountered him before. Chuck: The Complete Second Season » DVDs Worth Watching
Conversely, the trail intersections homeward-bound ants encounter have branches that fork at a sharp angle and a gentle one.
Book imp (buffs arcana and history, also give resist fire), Dragonling (encounter: would allow him to use a blast attack via the dragonling, would buff surges, and allow him to speak draconic), Critical Hit #18: Aboard the Airship! | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
We dropped down to a lower level were we encountered a hading (inclined from the vertical) fault plane which was rather awkward and tiring as we were walking at an angle!
In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance.
In addition, some firms encounter difficulties in understanding the new rules of the game.
Some of those he encountered expressed strongly xenophobic views as the cameras rolled. Times, Sunday Times

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