Sentence examples for unexpectedly encounter from inspiring English sources

His Japanese companion confirms that this experience of coincidence is universal by proffering the Japanese idiom – "We say, 'It's a narrow world.'" The title of David Lodge's Small World is a phrase that we use so often because we so often unexpectedly encounter people we know.

When viewers search for images on the internet, they may unexpectedly encounter disgusting or explicit images.

Serendipity often occurs in social networks, where we unexpectedly encounter friends of friends or even total strangers who prove helpful.

Journalist and novelist George Packer writes that, as in several of her novels, a theme in Burger's Daughter is of racially divided societies in which well-meaning whites unexpectedly encounter a side of black life they did not know about.

For instance, you receive a phone call that delays you or even ruins your plans for the day altogether, or you unexpectedly encounter a stranger who could use some help, or maybe your feelings get terribly hurt by someone close to you... whatever the situation, the question should always be the same: "What am I being taught today?

Therefore, virus populations may unexpectedly encounter new environments, including intrahost changes brought on by immune function [ 17, 18].

Union troops, under General Don Carlos Buell, were marching from Louisville when they unexpectedly encountered the Confederate army.

They unexpectedly encountered a roadblock where, Mr. Tous said, he was signaled to turn around.

Leaving the Capitol, he unexpectedly encountered Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and Representative Dick Armey, the majority leader.

The burglary went awry, prosecutors said, when the intruders unexpectedly encountered Taylor at home and shot him.

Once, while trying to find shelter in the rugged Scottish Cairngorms, he unexpectedly encountered a wader directly under his feet.