Sentence examples for encountering on from inspiring English sources

(The only player I can remember encountering on the street, one day on the West Side, was the Babe, in retirement by then, swathed in his familiar camel-hair coat with matching cap).

When the post-dinner dancing began and Liz got up to lead the revels, I felt I'd already had sufficient excitement for one evening and fled the room, encountering on the stairs author Nick Dunne.

"I got to a point where what I was encountering on the street wasn't at all what MapQuest made me believe was there," she said.

The most pleasant surprise in the film is Trudie Styler as a mysterious woman whom Clara keeps encountering on the street.

Someone has a gun!' " In the list of dangerous things that Mr. Johnson has thought about encountering on his train, even a gunman seemed on the outer edge of possibility until that day.

Other birds I'm encountering on my dawn and dusk outings are rather more cooperative: the buzzard that sits tight even as I cycle past, the stonechats that pop up on top of the hedgerows and, best of all, a barn owl – the first I have seen so close to home – that hunts for voles among the hay-bales still sitting in the fields.

Much like "gossip" stories than one encounters on US TV news.

The first sight that Didier Drogba encountered on a Chinese soccer field was a familiar one.

This one probably belonged to a Japanese player Martin had encountered on the Yankees' tour.

Gen. George B. McClellan encountered on the Virginia Peninsula.

Lists the luminaries encountered on various floors of the museum.