Sentence examples for confronted with danger from inspiring English sources

Confronted with danger in the wild, it strikes me there's a connection between not calling the riot squad on one occasion and panicking on another.

The sabre-toothed blenny, however, when confronted with danger holds the body stiffly without wriggling, allowing the hindquarters to sink somewhat, and advances solely by the use of the pectoral fins, in the manner common to wrasses.

A sensible man would never cook a swan with such a pretty song, so the lesson of the fable is that, when confronted with danger, a song (even the memorable words of a poem) can be handy.

As for Colvile's suggestion, he asked: "Do we want to have as our national symbol an animal which when confronted with danger rolls over into a ball and puts its spikes up [and] that sleeps for six months of the year?" Nothing was decided.

Just as the man climbing a high mountain together with a tiger, you will be confronted with danger and hardship.

Furthermore, Black males have been taught to run when confronted with danger because of the history of being victimized when one encounters a person who is chasing them.

Of course, he noted, the sailors may be confronted with dangers, like piracy or terrorism.

While working on this case, Hannah is confronted with dangers lurking in the Florida swamps and rivers, among them, human obsession.

Grossman observes that most soldiers, even when confronted with mortal danger, hesitate before pulling the trigger; but this wariness, he argues, can be greatly overcome with conditioning.

When confronted with the danger he was putting his life in, he said he didn't feel his life was more important than Syrians' lives.

A greengrocer by trade, the chief air-raid warden could be as pompous as his adversary, but was more coarse – and, when confronted with real danger, showed a cowardly streak by handing back authority to Mainwaring.