Sentence examples for crowd encountered from inspiring English sources

A quarter mile away, the crowd encountered an empty police car and within moments it was aflame.

Trouble was inevitable and when, after passing down Lecky Road, Rossville Street and William Street, the crowd encountered the first of the army barricades which were to prevent them getting into Waterloo Place and the Guildhall, fierce rioting started.

The Museum of Modern Art has been ground zero for zany crowd encounters these past few weeks as guards, audience members and artists navigated the impractical realities of midday, open-access dance programming in the bustling atrium.

So there had to be a certain frisson for that black-tie, first-night crowd encountering Bach, Vivaldi and Handel against a semi-psychedelic backdrop.

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

Early in the afternoon the audience was liberally sprinkled with very young children, as well as curious concertgoers considerably older than the crowd usually encountered at nightclub dates by these artists.

Otherwise, this was the most affable crowd I encountered in all of fashion week.

"I've never seen a bigger say-one-thing-do-another administration than this crowd in Washington," Mr. Kerry said to one of several huge crowds he encountered, this one in Wausau.

But the enthusiastic crowds he encountered in subsequent visits to East Germany convinced him that confederation was not enough.

In 1994, when my last Special Forces team, Operational Detachment Alpha 354, entered the Haitian city of Gonaives, I along with three members of that detachment waded through a huge and agitated crowd to encounter four soldiers and two plainclothes death squad members about to fire into that crowd with M-1 Garands.

Junior quickly becomes involved with a bad crowd, and encounters a bully.