encounter

In a sentence

Six example sentences with encounter, each labelled with its topic.

• A chance encounter with a retired ferry captain on the pier turned our afternoon into a tour of the harbor's hidden coves.

  Travel

• Darwin's brief encounter with the Galapagos finches lasted five weeks, yet the birds occupied his notebooks for the next twenty years.

  History

• Her first encounter with a chess computer, in a mall arcade in 1984, ended in twelve moves and started a lifelong obsession.

  Gaming

• A brief encounter with the star in the arena tunnel left the ball boy with a signed sneaker and no words.

  Basketball

• The probe's encounter with the comet lasted eight hours, and the photographs from that window filled a decade of papers.

  Science

• The whole novel turns on a chance encounter at a railway station that neither character mentions again for two hundred pages.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains encounter. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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