Example Sentences

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One social media user said on X they had been encountering issues with the supermarket's app and website for about four hours.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Although some Africans had been encountering Arab traders for centuries, the sudden arrival of Portuguese sailors on the West African coast around 1450 caused a sensation.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2010

I mentioned how much I had been encountering Kwang.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

It would not be possible for me to reach Barbadoes, with my present supply of coal, in the teeth of such trade-winds, as I had been encountering for the last few days.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

They were the same crowd, pretty much, who had been encountering one another all winter—dancing, dining and talking themselves into a state of complete satiety with one another.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau