CONFRONTATION in a Sentence
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110 example sentences for CONFRONTATION, such as:
1. She was confronted with severe money problems.
2. But here he was confronted with a thing of moment.
3. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
4. She had stayed in her room to avoid another confrontation.
5. She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
2. But here he was confronted with a thing of moment.
3. They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
4. She had stayed in her room to avoid another confrontation.
5. She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
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Meanings and Examples of CONFRONTATION
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confrontation
n. the act of hostile groups opposing each other
n. a hostile disagreement face-to-face
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1 in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
2 The old men and boys of the Home Guard marched by, the graybeards almost too weary to lift their feet, the boys wearing the faces of tired children, confronted too early with adult problems.
3 She had intended that the negroes should do the field work, while she and the convalescent girls attended to the house, but here she was confronted with a caste feeling even stronger than her own.
4 As usual when confronted by Melanie's habit of attributing worthy motives where no worth existed, Scarlett was ashamed and irritated, and suddenly she could not meet either Ashley's or Melanie's eyes.
5 So engrossed had they been in their gossip that they had not heard her light tread and now, confronted by their hostess, they looked like whispering schoolgirls caught by a teacher.
6 She flung on her dressing-gown to answer the summons, and unlocking her door, confronted the shining vision of Lily Bart.
7 She had never learned to live with her own thoughts, and to be confronted with them through such hours of lucid misery made the confused wretchedness of her previous vigil seem easily bearable.
8 The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair.
9 In the mysterious nocturnal separation from all outward signs of life, she felt herself more strangely confronted with her fate.
10 Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
11 For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world.
12 As I confronted her, the changes grew less apparent to me, her identity stronger.
13 He was no doubt prepared for any emergency, ready for any one of the foregoing attitudes, just as he bent himself easily and naturally to the situation which confronted him.
14 An hour or two later he entered a room and confronted a big Irishman behind a desk.
15 But here he was confronted with a thing of moment.
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 She had stayed in her room to avoid another confrontation.
2 She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
3 Their demands could lead to a serious confrontation with management.
4 The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.
5 There was a head-on confrontation between management and unions.
6 Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last year's confrontation.
7 They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
8 If it has decided to build a stockpile of nuclear weapons as the best guarantee of its security, then a more dangerous confrontation will be unavoidable.
9 The daily confrontation was not often caught on camera 10 years ago; but more and more electronic monitors and smart phones have been changing it.
10 On a quiet little road in upstate New York, resides an older woman whom neighbors describe as friendly, polite, averse to drama or confrontation.
11 As she left the court, she was confronted by angry crowds who tried to block her way.
12 I thought I would remain calm, but when I was confronted with/by the TV camera, I became very nervous.
13 He confronted her with a choice between her career or their relationship.
14 Revered by many, the institution now finds itself confronted by critics.
15 She was confronted with severe money problems.