"encounter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- After a series of sharp encounters with the Bhutanese forces, the British captured the capital (1772) and moved forward into southern Bhutan.
- It was a sharp encounter, but short.
- Lord Clarendon terms it a sharp encounter very bravely fought with the general's whole strength".
- The riding was superb, and as planned, after a sharp encounter the soldiers sent the Indians scampering across the prairie.
- The female was Ynvic, and Ruth remembered the sharp encounter with the shipsurgeon.
- When the summons came, she went to the encounter, blade- sharp, and hard as stone.
- They had had some sharp encounters with the Rajputs in which they had been severely handled and taught to respect their new enemy.
- It was easy to understand that, off and on, there must have been many a sharp encounter between him and old Sandy.
- It's a sharp, clever encounter, overturning all manner of genre cliches and viewer expectations.
- He loved and enjoyed the sharp encounter of harmless wit.
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