Sentence examples for a corner confronting from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a corner confronting" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a corner that faces or meets something, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "As I turned the corner confronting the busy street, I felt a rush of excitement."
Alternatives: "a corner facing" or "a corner meeting".

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Nobody can be quite sure that in a corner, confronting what it believed to be existential peril, Israel will not act alone if necessary.

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Backed into a corner, confronted with the predictable endgame of anti-choice logic, people resist.

As the author of a new book about the Clinton Foundation ramps up his publicity tour, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign believes it has already "turned a corner" in confronting his accusations of cozy connections between the organization's donors and Clinton's State Department.

"The Curfew" forces you into a corner and confronts you with the necessary inquiries: What do you envision for our eventual end?

Which is not to say there is a city on earth comparable to Venice in terms of architecture, art or visual surprise: you can barely turn a watery corner without confronting some serendipitous visual delight in what is, after all, the world's largest opera set.

It was the sort of street stop often pointed to by critics of the Police Department as demeaning: a teenage boy, grabbing a sandwich with friends at a corner deli, suddenly confronted by aggressive officers.

The upshot was that perpetrators carrying knives, when rounding a corner and being confronted with the unexpected sight of an arch, would often show a startle response, leading them to self-reveal to watching security staff, or to be sufficiently 'spooked' to dispose of the weapon or turn back.

Inside the space, I'll absent-mindedly round a corner and be confronted by the sight of Heizer's boulder overwhelming a window or a door.

He charged around a street corner and confronted an enemy fighter, killing him with a blast of gunfire.

In these ways and others, Mr. Bush's remarks in recent days suggest he has turned a psychological and linguistic corner, to confront a view not of the contested election but of the difficult, potentially compromised presidency it is expected to yield.

You're walking along the downtown city streets when all of a sudden, you turn a corner and you're confronted with a glowing, swaying, whispering form which looks like some kind of electronic plant life.

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