Example Sentences

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Many tourists will have encountered "sunbed wars" or "dawn dash" on holiday, which is the practice of reserving loungers with towels.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

“There is no situation in life that’s black and white. Anybody that’s lived in this world will have encountered those situations in their personal lives,” Farrell said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2016

Maybe none will become professional, but they will have encountered music from within, through their own endeavours, and discovered how it works.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2016

Many, regardless of their own racial backgrounds, will have encountered it themselves.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

He will have encountered many varieties of whites,—sailors, merchants, clerks, priests, Protestant missionaries in their pith helmets, and the nondescript hangers-on of any island beach. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis