"encounter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He reached out a hand, it encountered moss-covered rock on one side, a thick tree trunk on the other.
- He crept back, hands outstretched like a sleepwalker, but encountered only rock.
- Craig Luebben, a friend of Hersey, speculated that he encountered slippery rock.
- Deeper workings encountered less altered rock, serpentinized kimberlite, which miners call blue ground.
- Aubrey reported to him that they had encountered less resistant rock and that they were now 2000 feet away from the cave.
- We're mostly encountering dust, rock, and ice particles, ranging from microscopic to about the size of your head.
- He tried to scratch; his fingers encountered only bare rock.
- At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll.
- A glacier encountering weaker rock at its base, will be able to erode deeper than when it experiences harder, less erodible rocks.
- After a. few minutes my fingers encountered rock and I pulled out my torch.
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