Sentence examples for casually encounter from inspiring English sources

Or, as the official announcement put it: "Some residents are interested in pursuing certain 'adult' activities in Second Life that others would rather not casually encounter".

Our memory for faces is crucial: We interact daily with a handful of familiar people, but passively see and remember the faces of many more people whom we casually encounter.

At moments like this, or when Alice casually encounters the dead who have perished in battle, the novel's sense of humor goes from fluffy to nonexistent, but it always manages to come back again.

But these days Dr. Wilson — a courtly man with a touch of an Alabama drawl and a palpable eagerness to comment on even casually encountered flora and fauna — is more likely to be hailed as the nation's leading advocate for biodiversity and an all-around eco hero.

In a series titled "Finnish Nightmares," Korhonen illustrates the casually awkward encounters that prove truly agonizing for this personality type.

These friends, while feeling exultant and stunned about the historic night, said they felt that some guard had come down among the whites they encountered casually.

On first encounter they seem to be casually and confidently hand carved (like Mr. Balkenhol's work), albeit out of a space-age plastic.

"We'd say, very casually: 'So what was it like shooting "Close Encounters"?

A family friend has an amazing ability to casually identify most, if not all, of the flora we encounter when we're walking in the countryside.

The Bushes' first encounter with West Texas racism came when they casually invited a black man, working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to come by their temporary home in neighboring Odessa.

Hippo encounter Hippos upstream and down watched the scene casually, resigned that they could not take on an entire herd in defense of their territory.