Sentence examples for encounter down from inspiring English sources

This has less to do with snootiness about "dumbing down" science – I'm not going to criticise something that brings it alive for schoolchildren – and more to do with our infantilising tendency to personify every object we encounter, down to paper cups that tell us "I'm hot!".

Good self-care ensures you have the juice, creativity and energy for your job and challenges that you encounter down the road.

He reflects, for instance, on a new sign that advertises the impending highway construction; it is erected amid the machinery and debris that he encounters down by the river.

Do things like this happen to you, or am I the only one?" Coetzee puts the Heston encounters down to the fact that Auster works in the film business before moving on to other concerns, including a review he is writing of the collected letters of Samuel Beckett, a shared hero.

Exxon was afraid of the high pressures and temperatures it was encountering down hole.

Since then, however, the case against him has crumpled.CCTV footage quickly emerged suggesting that the encounter in Downing Street had been momentary and without onlookers, contradicting the police log.

It was a story he recounted years later to Carol in a chance roadside encounter, breaking down in tears.

On summer nights visitors may encounter the downs' luminous glow-worms.

Mr. Schulte is normally encountered sitting down, as a regular member of several groups performing new music in New York City.

"Hunting, shockingly, surprisingly, had no effect whatsoever," Dr. Tavss said, but when trash was kept sealed from bears the encounters "went down dramatically".

She also describes, at length, a scene where people meet for casual sexual encounters somewhere down by the water, where cabs and trucks park up for the night.