6 sentences with 'encounter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word encounter and other words derived from it.
• « I am in the Healesville Biological Reserve, 65 kilometres east of Melbourne, Australia, and this is my first encounter with the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, also known as the sarcophagus, the Tasmanian Devil. »
• « Historians refer to the demographic catastrophe that accompanied the European encounter with the Americas as the Great Dying. Up to 90% of the natives of the Americas died within a few generations of Columbus' arrival. »
• « Scientists, however, encounter a difficulty: although weather variables can be measured and predicted with precision, no two human beings on the planet respond the same way to the same climatic factors. »
• « Spontaneity develops when there is an encounter between mother and child, i.e. when mothers help their babies to experiment. »
• « Not all efforts to assert American control were peaceful; some Indians rejected the explorers' intrusion into their lands. An encounter with the Blackfeet turned hostile, for example, and members of the group killed two Blackfeet men. »