Sentence examples for I encountered only from inspiring English sources

I encountered only one remnant of the old condescension.

Once out of Norwich, I encountered only the occasional slope.

THE CROWD I encountered only a few customers, all casually dressed.

The food, too, is better; I encountered only two dishes that failed to make the grade.

While awaiting boarding, at Pier 61 at Chelsea Piers, I encountered only repeat customers, like Cheryl Davis and her husband, Richard, of Brooklyn.

And almost everybody I encountered only knew me from my column, so they thought I was a hell of a funny person and we established very hearty relations..

I encounter only traces: their footpaths and magnificent skulls, strewn eerily across the barren landscape.

Ispanak ezme is a yogurt and spinach salad seasoned with something that tastes to me like dried fenugreek, a favorite bitter and exotic tasting herb I have encountered only in Indian cooking.

Of course, it's not just any bourbon but good ol' Jim Beam, which before this moment I've encountered only poured over ice in a whisky glass.

In some moment of cosmic levity it had been ordained that the dance teacher would be unavailable today, and in her place was the kind of trim-hipped, no-stomached, humourless drill-sergeant I had previously encountered only in very unpleasant nightmares.

Or the temporary glory of the Aurora Borealis, glimpsed on an overnight flight to London from San Francisco, great green curtains of shimmering Northern Lights, encountered only because I defied the insistence of the stewardesses who like the window blinds kept down at night, and sneaked a view of the Arctic sky.