Sentence examples for he was encountered from inspiring English sources
Rice, who was playing with a toy pellet gun in a park in Cleveland, Ohio was shot dead by Loehmann less than two seconds after he was encountered by police.
He was encountered while fending off a swarm of toy buyers in the West 21st Street showroom of Hasbro's archrival, Mattel Inc., which had won the right to produce his new game.
Armstrong was still smarting over the question this morning when he was encountered on a training ride as he worked up a sweat and readied his legs for his long, solitary race four hours later.
He was encountered yesterday afternoon in his late-model Toyota, cell phone in one hand and bacon-cheeseburger in the other, enjoying what he joked was the "businessman's lunch special" in the parking area of a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, about an hour out of New York City.
Lieberman found that he was encountering such hostile audiences in Iowa that he decided not to contest the caucuses there.
He was encountering things he'd heard about as a child: "the ghastly smell of cabbage in doss-house corridors, and fag ash in the basin".
He recruited a producer, George Crile, but, soon after Crile started work, Turner told him that he was encountering budget opposition at CNN.
That prompted Mr. Reid to note that even after agreeing to take up the tax issue before anything else, he was encountering Republican obstruction.
