Sentence examples for what confronted from inspiring English sources

We bobbed and slalomed through the floes, percussive thumps hitting our kayak's hull, until we were just a few hundred yards away, rendered speechless by what confronted us.

But that's different from what confronted Feagles when he trotted on to the field late in the third quarter with the opportunity to kick a 29-yard field goal that would tie the score at 13-13.

So here is what confronted Mr. Wadsworth: a mostly completed set and costumes by two longtime collaborators of Mr. Stein's; a cast and a conductor, Valery Gergiev, hired to work with his predecessor; and a dramatic conception of Russia's greatest historical opera that was unknown to him.

In his classic biography, Robert Gittings describes what confronted Keats as an apprentice surgeon at Guy's Hospital: "It was not only the groans of patients, half-stupefied with rum, or, worse, the cries of the children that could shake one: worst of all was the terrifying lack of skill of some of the surgeons".

A situation comparable to what confronted the Yankees occurred when Apple appeased alienated customers by dropping the price of its iPhones from $599 to $399; customers who had paid the higher price ultimately were offered $100 coupons good for Apple merchandise.

What confronted me most was the self-assurance of the Oxford students.

Not that I don't wish Bill Clinton well — who, knowing what confronts him, doesn't?

British critics have generally been puzzled by what confronts them in his work.

Our understanding of what confronts us seems scarcely to have advanced since we responded to catastrophe by burning old women.

An American study has looked into what confronts lesbian, gay and bisexual engineering students at a big research university.

Retrospect also helped make the experience look simpler than it may really have been and certainly simpler than what confronts the world now.