Sentence examples for friendly encounters from inspiring English sources

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).

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.

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.

Viva further expands the possibilities of good old ink-and-paper-on-a-spine with "A Long Way Away," which can be read from front to back or back to front, each direction telling a slightly different story about a little octopus/alien on a labyrinthine journey, and its many friendly encounters along the way.

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.

It was a friendly encounter.

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

A person familiar with the session said it was a friendly encounter.

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

A glance at any business meeting, friendly encounter or morning rush hour shows that coffee is a global invigorator.