Sentence examples for encounters occur from inspiring English sources

Many encounters occur on special patrols beyond the southern boundary.

In "Consequences," crucial encounters occur by sheer chance, by a hair's breadth.

The couple's brief encounters occur on freezing park benches, in fogbound train stations and dusty teashops.

Though all four dancers occasionally come together, in stillness or in bursts of motion, the most intense encounters occur in pairs.

An asteroid some 30 m (100 ft) in diameter passes within 42,640 km (26,500 mi) of the Earth, the closest encounter between an asteroid and the planet ever recorded, though scientists believe closer encounters occur without being noticed.

But the most Thomas-esque encounters occur with strategically placed locals – the town's actual mayor, for example, an expansive raconteur who can be found sitting in a boat in a dank cellar; or the chap at the bus stop who seems very keen to tell you about the time he was arrested at a Turkish airport as a suspected terrorist.

"That's where the accidental encounters occurred.

Apparently no other such encounters occurred in Dr. Mariano's tenure.

Those encounters occurred shortly before the N.B.A. said the game would be played, which Yormark said, "was the right thing to do" at the time.

The woman, officials said, was able to identify the two firefighters, Tony Deluca, 34, and Christian R. Waugh Jr., 30, both of Ladder Company 33, and describe the inside of the firehouse where she said the encounters occurred.

The idea of a play about people's first sexual encounters occurred to him and, not patient enough to go out and do interviews, he decided to start a Web site.