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Sentence count:260+6Posted:2016-11-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: battlecollidecome acrossconfrontmeetopposeSimilar words: countercountermandcounterpartencouragecountycountrycount oncount outMeaning: [ɪn'kaʊntə]  n. 1. a minor short-term fight 2. a casual or unexpected convergence 3. a casual meeting with a person of thing 4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face. v. 1. come together 2. come upon, as if by accident; meet with 3. be beset by 4. experience as a reaction 5. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle. 
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61. This is so because the former quite possibly face weaker external constraints and because management may not encounter such sophisticated incentive structures.
62. Why are you still sporting the bruise from that encounter?
63. Desert Orchid and a close encounter of the short kind.
64. In any event, for whatever reason, humanity first began to encounter the virus during the 1960s and 1970s.
65. In the broken-wing performance, the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it.
66. This, my first encounter with real racism came as a shock.
67. Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.
68. The lightning, it seemed to Lydia, had undoubtedly come off best in that encounter.
69. My previous encounter with Lucia had convinced me that she was an able student.
70. The media tell it whenever they present international relations as a dramatic encounter between world leaders who personify their countries.
71. A number of issues arose that emphasised the difficulties that safety committees encounter because of the absence of trade union representation.
72. Both clubs are used to Twickenham cup finals and a fine encounter is in prospect.
73. Feminist consciousness now leavens every relationship, every single social and professional encounter.
74. When we turn to the Gospel we encounter the disciples trying to understand the mission of our Lord.
75. It starts, I suppose, with my first meeting Steve and ends some months later with another chance encounter.
76. All too often attention is directed away from the present encounter to the next so that response is reduced to a minimum.
77. He did not appear to remember our encounter last summer and just nodded when we were introduced.
78. The day of the first encounter was cloudy and cold.
79. It was only too likely that they would encounter dangers beyond the warren and that they would stand in need of some good fighters.
80. We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once(sentencedict.com), before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
81. For example, salespeople of media space in newspapers which are given away free to the public often encounter the following objection.
82. I find myself constantly asking what experience, what encounter with the numinous, lies behind and beneath this or that theology?
82. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
83. But the depth of experience on which children can rely when they encounter a new topic varies from one topic to another.
84. Constantly he creates situations for which he can find no earthly solution and his characters encounter difficulties beyond their means to control.
85. After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them, their encounter has been little short of anodyne.
86. That is, rather than correcting their errors, I model the strategies readers use when they encounter these problems.
87. We do not develop childhood immunity to many of the microbes which we may encounter.
88. The changes that befall us along the way are just the various experiences that we encounter on our journey.
89. Anne Salmond and Judith Binney, among others, have written excellent books about colonial cultural encounter.
90. I couldn't help contrast the boredom with United's exhilarating 4-3 encounter with Liverpool some years back, also in Belfast.
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