face to face

The items on offer at the "face-to-face freecycle" event include things such as books, clothes and household items.

I didn’t expect to be hurled into the literal underworld, and to suddenly be face-to-face with someone claiming to be my late grandmother.

Penelope stepped forward till she was face-to-face with the frightening beast.

She pulled up a little classroom chair, the kind used for the smallest students, and sat down in it herself, so that she might speak to the Incorrigibles face-to-face.

Besides, after coming face-to-face with an ostrich, anything short of a dodo was bound to be a letdown.