Sentence examples for encounters rather than from inspiring English sources
She countered this by saying I could be "falling into a series of casual encounters" rather than actively pursuing the kind of woman I would like to date.
Bruno's education is conducted slowly, through a series of fleeting social encounters rather than by plunging him into a nightmare landscape.
Its venue, Battersea Arts Centre, feels like a boarding school that's been continuously extended by a scatterbrained wizard, and its maze of nooks and crannies will host the encounters rather than its central auditorium, everywhere from lofty practice spaces to niches under staircases.
Spatial overlap of nightjars and foxes along roads suggests that microhabitat selection by these birds may in part depend on the chance of escape from predator encounters rather than on the probability of encountering predators.
We short change all generations if we settle for once a year encounters rather than ongoing exchange and engagement.
We also agreed that we wouldn't have sex with our friends, that we could only have casual one-time encounters rather than relationships.
Second, the effect of the place on the participants, producing at best a continuous sense of encounter rather than a mere succession of author-events.
O'Neill had admitted, pre-match, that this encounter – rather than visits to Hungary, Greece or Finland – was to be his side's most significant test.
We aim to understand the online data protection-related issues that instructors or instructional designers encounter rather than reiterating that users must be aware of the informative and persistent characteristics of online data.
In the spirit of Martinez's view of an integrated border, Cooper and Rumford (2013) argue that borders must be regarded as mechanisms of connectivity and encounter rather than markers of division.
Alternatively, because the largely solitary males can breed for a short window of time only once in their lives, they may drop their spermatophores onto every squid they encounter rather than risk missing an opportunity to breed.
