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How to use encountering in a sentence

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The middle part of the film becomes a series of incidents, with the girls encountering people who either help or hinder them.
Some seem to believe that it's their God-given right to be able to go into any bar or restaurant without encountering a whiff of smoke.
Midway between the two rattling sounds, the captain was heard remarking that he was encountering the wake of a plane ahead of him.
The teens were hampered by poor reading and research skills and were more prone to leave a site after encountering difficulties.
We were now encountering the last minute and Dingle had all hands on deck to rescue their rapidly sinking ship.
The passage from Ireland was quite rough with the vessel encountering storm force winds and high seas for days crossing the Bay of Biscay.
Chauffeured around town in a pink Rolls Royce, he takes over entire restaurants to avoid encountering riff-raff.
He sounds just the right height to run the risk of encountering an accidental sharp elbow jab to the bridge of his nose.
Military forces conducting operations must anticipate encountering an array of friendly, hostile, and neutral persons within the three blocks.
The theme of the film involves the central characters encountering new situations while running away from the problems of adulthood.
Perhaps I'm just unlucky in encountering those with attitude, or perhaps I just complain too much.
For I suddenly seem to be encountering a new generation of stunningly attractive women in their fifties.
Here in South Texas there is always the possibility of encountering a 300 lb. feral hog while turkey hunting.
But that business is encountering its own problems, specifically a bottleneck in processing seal blubber for nutritional supplements.
Through encountering the materiality of the site the woman encounters her own materiality in a new way and with renewed intensity.
He has already had a brush with cancer in the past and obviously is now encountering another serious health problem.
A lot of people I'm encountering lately seem to have been recently bereaved.
She has enjoyed her stay, despite encountering cyclones, and managed to do some tramping and sightseeing around the glaciers on the West Coast.
It features the creature of the title, a giant sperm whale, as it swims through disparate oceans, encountering man and beast through the ages.
Chairat managed two races, encountering wind shifts of 180 degrees, alternating between storms and dead calms.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The first glance made us reluct at encountering in the outset the writer's formidable-looking preface.
This enables a drypoint needle to move freely in any direction without encountering the resistance of a grain.
It was a fact, and a great pleasure, that an angler could go out for tuna without encountering a single market boat on the sea.
With their return to the hut, Marjorie had found herself encountering a new set of urgencies.
We recommend our friends, before encountering such a temptation, to read our peptic precepts.
Hastening back as he came, he was just in time for his dinner, and narrowly escaped encountering Betty in the transe.
Are we really just at the edge of the unknown, encountering the outlying pickets of this lost world of which our leader speaks?
Dudbridge held it together in the eighth set though, despite encountering some problems with the noisy and ill-behaved Circus Tavern crowd.
The likelihood of encountering rebuilding rockfish species is relatively low.
About midway down it, what was his astonishment at encountering Hamish!
I had ridden horses in my youth, and I felt like a cowhand encountering his first Arabian after decades of riding crowbait from Kansas.
There are two ways of encountering an anti-climax, an heroic, an unheroic.
They were now in a straight and long gallery, in a chasm of the rocks, where retreat without encountering the animal was impossible.
The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
As for his not encountering the salesman until now, he had been lucky.
It was like encountering an inhabitant of the fourth dimension of space, a being who was free from all one's own limitations.
You could not now traverse the gallery, once so hushed, nor enter the front chambers, once so tenantless, without encountering a smart lady's-maid or a dandy valet.
And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no natural affection, nor remembrance thereof, but only hate.
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