Sentence examples for unforeseen encounters from inspiring English sources

"unforeseen encounters" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It means unexpected or unplanned meetings or interactions with someone or something. Example: The journey was full of exciting adventures and unforeseen encounters, making it a memorable experience for us.

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I learned from Kieślowski how unforeseen encounters can subtly pile up and determine the course of a person's life.

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In another unforeseen encounter, Eritrea's defence minister, Sebhat Efrem, turns up at a US reception – the first time he has appeared for two years.

Of the demonic Claggart: But upon any abrupt unforeseen encounter a red light would flash forth from his eye like a spark from an anvil in a dusk smithy.

You have to take the jet up and move it around, feel it with your fingertips, react quickly to the unforeseen, encounter what he calls "the fog and friction of war".

As with Odysseus, the story of the past five years is one of blunders made, unforeseen problems encountered, opportunities missed.

This would accommodate a dentist who encounters unforeseen complications during treatment or who must unexpectedly treat someone (a patient who mistook pennies for bonbons, perhaps) as well as a patient whose sitter abruptly cancels (after a penny-nibbling mishap, in the O. Henry version).

At that point, Russia encountered unforeseen difficulties.

Although the college was up and running quickly, it promptly encountered unforeseen difficulties.

The escape routes are well trodden -- love affairs, midlife crises -- though strewn with the left-behind luggage of those who encountered unforeseen obstacles along the way (panic, guilt, self-engineered exposures) and beat self-abashed retreats to their domestic gulags, even after pledging body and soul to newfound loves in the balmy utopias of nondomesticated romances.

He said the need for separate stages did not become apparent until the surgery was already under way, and doctors encountered unforeseen obstacles in rerouting blood flow in the heads of the sisters, who shared a major vein that drained blood from the brain.

It is important for anesthesiologists to carefully understand the surgical procedure and its related potentially life-threatening adverse intracranial events even in common cases, whenever encountering unforeseen events in the perioperative period.

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