Sentence examples for encounter usually from inspiring English sources

I find that the similarly situated, newly emancipated parents I encounter usually fit into two groups.

History was against her as well: since taking the world title in 2010 Meares had taken their every encounter, usually in a semi-final.

"Green has given us a sex scene for the ages," proclaimed Vulture, "the sort of buzzed-about encounter usually reserved for premium cable instead of the multiplex".

Eighteen years ago, we took friends to Restaurant Florent, our discovery from a few years past, and had an encounter usually observed only in fiction.

The longer a presidential campaign goes on, the more fundamental truths you inevitably encounter, usually things the candidates and their handlers labor tirelessly to obscure.

The narrator explains that the encounter usually qualifies as an actual stop only if the officer takes further steps such as physically subduing a suspect, pointing a gun at him, or blocking his path.

Their encounters usually include an invitation: Come by the church on Sunday to learn more.

There have been 32 "encounters" with gangsters this year (encounters usually resulting in the death of the gangster).

These encounters, usually over drinks, which sometimes included Norma's husband, Charlie, who enjoyed deflating the Millay hype, are not well enough developed to be more than a distraction, and one senses a competing story — Milford's — straining for expression.

In extreme cases, this can involve grabbing the nearest passer-by and jabbering excitedly in their ear, but even for the most sober-minded souls, memorable wildlife encounters usually demand retelling.

In his recent essay "On Growing Up Between Genders" (which ran in a small journal I help edit), Burt wrote that his teenage sexual encounters "usually involved a moment when I asked to try on a girl's bra.