"encounter" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He allowed his regiments no rest, but sent them feverishly to new lands in the north, and again they encountered disaster.
- He set off in 1909, and encountered disaster when his ship, the Janthina Agatha, hit ice in Cumberland Sound and sank, losing most of its cargo.
- If any agent encountered disaster in following orders given to him by The Shadow, that agent's safety became the only consideration in The Shadow's mind.
- Then the fleet had encountered disaster: an entire ship, cargo, and crew lost hideously to a wormhole mishap.
- The odds of encountering grudge-inducing disaster are always highest when a restaurant first opens.
- This Ptah had apparently encountered physical disaster of cataclysmic proportions.
- The burst was followed immediately by the sound of breaking glass and the tortured sounds of a fast-moving vehicle encountering unavoidable disaster at high speed.
- In areas held by Episcopal troops, every Praman effort encountered disaster.
- If I encounter disaster I want no more lives lost.
- Among ruined temples and ancient, stepped pyramids, they encounter danger - and almost disaster!
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