How to Use confrontation in a Sentence

confrontation

noun

• He would prefer not to have a confrontation with the authorities.
• We seek to avoid military confrontation at all costs.
• There were several violent confrontations between rival gangs.
• We want cooperation, not confrontation.
• Trump was not at the White House at the time of the confrontation.
  — Avery Lotz, Axios, 9 Mar. 2025
• The confrontation stopped and restarted as the man appeared to try to get the knife away from Perez over the fence.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
• In the wake of the confrontation, Pakistan closes its airspace.
  — CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
• But her staff has had to learn to endure and defuse confrontations.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• In each of our projects, the output is always the result of a confrontation between us and the artist.
  — Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
• The joy of House of Villains comes from all the styles of confrontation the contestants come up against.
  — Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• The confrontation underscored the high-stakes risks of the conflict.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Layton wound up in a confrontation in the last car with Wilford, who’d weathered the outside to board the train from the back.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
• The confrontation prompted the Filipino officials to cut the trip short.
  — Camille Elemia, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• See the remarkable near-confrontation on the House floor.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• After a confrontation, the suspects began to leave in their car and one fired a shot at the injured man.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
• During the confrontation, the two men were shot, and both died on scene, officers said.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
• After the game, Propst said his son was about to run on the field to join a confrontation between other players.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], al, 29 Aug. 2023
• The legal back-and-forth ramped up weeks after the airport confrontation.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
• Major Bets likened the confrontations to a boxing match.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The shooter in that rampage died in a confrontation with police inside the school.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
• The confrontation When Fatou learned what had been done to her daughter, her first call was to her sister.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
• There's that great sequence in the finale, where Galadriel and Sauron have that confrontation.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• Obi-Wan asks Vader during their confrontation in the third episode.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
• To ask the question is to assume that such a confrontation is even possible.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The jump scares are predictable and tacky, and the final confrontation drags on forever.
  — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 26 July 2024
• Any of those could provide the spark for a more dangerous confrontation.
  — New York Times, 27 July 2022
• There was a confrontation and the homeowner fired his gun, police said.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Cody Weems told the station that the woman pulled out a knife during the confrontation and stabbed his wife multiple times.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• The confrontation unfolded around 3:55 p.m. on April 8, as officers descended on Lauren’s neighborhood in search of three hit-and-run suspects who police said fled from the scene of a nearby traffic accident.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
• This left the citizens with only one solution: direct confrontation.
  — EW.com, 25 Apr. 2025