encounter

Definition:
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.
5. Come together.
6. Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.
7. Be beset by.

Use 'encounter' in a sentence:

1. You can correct any errors that you encounter in the model.
2. I did encounter some drawbacks and problems.
3. The new manager encountered some difficulties in his first week.
4. His plane encountered severe turbulence and winds of nearly two-hundred miles an hour.
5. Every day of our lives we encounter stresses of one kind or another.
6. You should be chatting with the strangers you encounter.
7. One disadvantage is that some species are not collected as they either avoid the traps or do not commonly encounter them while foraging.
8. For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.
9. My working days were spent mooning round his department, trying to sneak a chance encounter.
10. They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, and through debating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.
11. However, they encounter some spiritual problems from the real world.
12. It was at university that he first encountered Hopkins.
13. I had a chance encounter with an exchanged student from India this morning.
14. We encounter emergencies and personal crises.
15. On the path of pursuing knowledge, the teachers we encounter may have a lifelong impact on us.
16. Renata wrote him that she had encountered her long-estranged father.
17. We encounter so many problems in our work.
18. You'll have little patience with the hypocrisy and double standards you encounter.
19. Environmental problems they found in Poland were among the worst they encountered.
20. Do spacemen carry weapons in case they encounter enemies in space?
21. When we encounter difficulties, we ought to try our best to solve the problems.
22. Whenever I encounter difficulties in English, you would always cheer me up and help me out, which fuels my enthusiasm for English.
23. The board has encountered strong opposition to its plan to reduce employees.
24. Did you encounter anyone in the building?
25. God and humans lock in an eternal struggle, neither prevailing, yet both forever changed by their encounter with one another.
26. There're three main types of financial stress people encounter.
27. What will be the nature of this encounter?
28. Our wildlife trips offer a thrilling encounter with wildlife in its natural state.
29. It's why Goldilocks did not encounter more bears.
30. Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
31. The troops are encountering stiff resistance.
32. You may occasionally have a negative encounter that might stick in your memory.
33. In the countryside as a young doctor she encountered ancient superstitious beliefs and prejudices.
34. In high school, I was very unpopular, and I did encounter a little prejudice.
35. Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter.
36. The difficulties women encounter with their doctors partly explain why so many of us are looking to alternative therapies.
37. A fortunate encounter brought the two friends together after a long separation.
38. The story describes the extraordinary encounter between a man and a dolphin.
39. It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest.
40. I've had a number of close encounters with bad drivers.
41. The wine towns encountered are, on the whole, quiet and modest.
42. We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home.
43. You have to drill into rocks much harder than those you normally encounter in oil fields.
44. I had never encountered such resistance before.
45. Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn?
46. Every day of our lives we encounter major and minor stresses of one kind or another.
47. If you undertake the project, you are bound to encounter difficulties.
48. Three of them were killed in the subsequent encounter with the police.
49. We have encountered major problems.
50. When a tribe encounters civilization, the first things to get trampled underfoot are the religious beliefs of the tribe.
51. Take someone who is annoyed by a rude encounter for hours after it occurred.
52. The author tells of a remarkable encounter with a group of South Vietnamese soldiers.
53. You, dear reader, encounter a Rottweiler, not on a leash but loose. How do you react?
54. The expectant mothers that Amy had encountered positively glowed with pride.
55. She has beaten her opponent in all of their previous encounters.