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.