"encounter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It pleased me to domineer over her, and she generally submitted to my tyranny rather than risk a hand-to-hand encounter.
- He had obviously been trained for hand-to-hand encounters.
- They had thrice to outsail pirates and once best them in bloody hand-to-hand encounter.
- She had first learned street fighting from her father, who had survived several hand-to-hand encounters.
- Although wounded in a hand-to-hand encounter, his bold rush caused panic among the enemy who were at the same time charged by the Sikhs.
- The guy certainly wasn't hanging around for a hand-to-hand encounter.
- The rest of the English and Germans were engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter.
- Behind the fury of the hand-to-hand encounter, "X" saw a flash of yellow silk.
- He led his men through 10 hours of combat, including hand-to-hand encounters, and headed a patrol that seized a second objective, a strategic slope.
- He was afraid of no one in a hand-to-hand encounter, so the other's proposal met with instant approval.
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