Sentence examples for odd encounters from inspiring English sources

The sentencing was just the latest of many odd encounters Mr. Sandler has had with the law.

Think observational comedy with a tech spin, shining a cathartic light on the odd encounters we all have with new media.

Bloodied and bedeviled by random flashes of white light, the young woman staggers off in search of help, her progress marked by increasingly odd encounters: a crone flashing a dead smile; a weirdo wearing a green plushy costume.

It's weird and sacred ground, a spot to prep for odd encounters: "Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process," Toni Morrison told The Paris Review, in 1993.

They recounted a litany of odd encounters: a man with Tourette's syndrome and dressed as a clown, whom they helped with a bus ticket because his car broke down; and the fugitive they persuaded to stop running from the law but who called the police only to find out the charges against him had been dropped.

"One day, I will become president of the United States of America and I will change the legislation and laws," Stiviano said in one of several odd encounters with media camped outside her home.

It made for an odd encounter.

Later there is an odd encounter in the wee hours between Paul, clad in gym shorts, and Kate, fluttering about in a revealing peignoir, as they uneasily chat and chew on butterscotch brownies.

Except for an odd encounter with Winnie Mandela, in which he is "astonished" when she tells him she strongly follows the beliefs of her Xhosa people, he abandons his earlier line of questioning about what goes on in the forest.

That story about the pig's head is a case in point, as is a rather laborious chapter about the 18-year-old Cameron's odd encounter with the KGB while travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Trans-Siberian Express

Even the odd encounter with a corrupt policeman was usually filled with humour, and in most cases they'd just ask me questions about my bike and the trip and then let me off.