Sentence examples for friendly encounter from inspiring English sources

It was a friendly encounter.

Describes Fisk's friendly encounter with Kenneth Jackson, a homeless man on the Upper West Side.

They embraced and had what appeared to be a warm and friendly encounter.

Noel Saleh, an immigration lawyer with many Arab clients, said of the memorandum, "It just confirms our suspicion that what they've been saying was to be a friendly encounter is not going to be a friendly encounter".

The discovery necessitated a meeting over bad coffee, but it was a friendly encounter, not "hygge at dawn", said Crosby.

Meanwhile O'Neill is concentrating on Friday night's friendly encounter with Switzerland and the following game against Slovakia on Tuesday.

The popularity of social networking may be simply a fraternal exchange, or innocent "friendly encounters of the voyeuristic kind".

She had friendly encounters with Jim Watson (who by now had become something of a celebrity, appearing in an issue of Vogue opposite Richard Burton).

Contests between the neighbors are never mere friendly encounters, and this one was no exception — because not only was it Wilmots's debut as head coach, it was also the first game for the Netherlands since Louis van Gaal returned as coach.

Friendly encounters with male waiters or service personnel are regularly unsettled when Dodge hands over his credit card with its female name, an act freighted with the threat of violence.

We'd stop for lunch, then move on again, reaching our night stop by late afternoon in time for yet more friendly encounters and shamefully poor attempts at beating small children at cricket.