confront
Example Sentences
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As the showdown with Cook unfolded, markets barely reacted, and Senate Republicans showed little appetite to confront the president.
"So the 10,000 things that I'm confronted with through the course of this trial, we shot all of that stuff. "
From BBC
I asked, suddenly confronted with a wall of nine lasagnas, each dutifully dropped off by a loving member of her orbit.
From Salon
"I think that people are sometimes reluctant to confront the powerful. But the truth is that if we don't confront the powerful, we will never be able to have a better world."
From BBC
French President Emmanuel Macron said, “No intimidation or threat will influence us—neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world when we are confronted with such situations.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
