Sentence examples for met upon from inspiring English sources
The finals of 1966 brought the ignominy of North Korea and Pak-Doo Ik, the team met upon their return from England by an airport-full of radged-off supporters wielding sizeable boxes of assorted ripe organic produce.
It was a bit of poetic symmetry, then, that Ms. Puzio and Mr. Billotti met upon her return from a six-month trip to Italy, where she had been studying art history.
Even though only weeks had passed since we were last in Thimpu together, and even though many of the team members had first met upon our arrival in Bhutan, it felt like a reunion of old friends.
While chest-pounding, Senator Kerry let slip a lyrical side, reciting a poem of his own composition: "I had a talk with a deer today/we met upon the road some way... between his frequent snorts/He asked me if I sought his pelt/cause if I did he said he felt/quite out of sorts".
The two were met upon their arrival in Lampedusa by a small group of activists and local residents who shouted "shame", "disgrace" and "killers" at the airport gates.
The U.S. Army doc I met, upon consideration of these documents, concluded, "You're a sick man".
Section B. POST PREPARATION FOR HANDLING WALK-INS 7. (S/NF) Each post's Counterintelligence Working Group CIWGG) should meet upon receipt of this telegram to review post's procedures for dealing with walk-ins.
von Wright 1968 refers to a conflict of obligations as a "predicament" and illustrates with the much-cited example of Jephthah (from the Book of Judges), who promises God to sacrifice the first living being he meets upon returning home from war, if God gives him victory, which wish is granted, but his daughter is the first living being he meets upon his return.
Zé Cláudio and Zé Rodrigues's eyes meet upon entering.
Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue: Bubba is Forrest's friend whom he meets upon joining the Army.
Here is how they meet, upon Dylan summoning him with words from a mysterious magical tome: "I am Golan the Insatiable, God Lord Terrible Gkruool, crusher of will, impregnator of the impregnable".
