I cannot greet a person, for instance, without greeting a person of some particular height; but I can think of a person, without thinking of a person of any particular height.
Without greeting, he instructed me to be at the bus stop the following morning at ten.
Some confusion in the crowd prompted Mrs. Clinton's group to move beyond the cathedral, without greeting the archbishop himself.
Philippe Gaulier (translated by Heather Robb) adds: Did you ever meet a tall, strong, strapping teacher moving through the corridors of his school without greeting his students?
Brusque doctors who handle patients without greeting them first, embarrassing gowns that gape open at the back, and indifferent and impersonal care are such common complaints that they have become stereotypes of the hospital experience.
"Their friends passed them by without greeting in the church and in the street," The Times said, although Stetson said that there was only "love, harmony, unity and peace" in the congregation, and that people who criticized her rule were "mentally unbalanced".
Many coworkers in their mid-40s enter a place without greeting others and leave without saying goodbye.
"Have you entered the chicken pen?" my mother would ask me if I dared to enter a room without greeting her.
