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
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