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.
• The joy of House of Villains comes from all the styles of confrontation the contestants come up against.
  — Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
• The confrontation prompted the Filipino officials to cut the trip short.
  — Camille Elemia, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Major Bets likened the confrontations to a boxing match.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• To ask the question is to assume that such a confrontation is even possible.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• 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 patient fired one shot during the confrontation, police said.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• Witnesses told police that the confrontation began in the nightclub, where the group was yelling at the victim and his friends, police said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
• The sound of the gunshot prompted two men who lived nearby to approach the poachers, and the confrontation ended with the father shooting one of the witnesses in the leg.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 4 Apr. 2024
• The confrontation, analysts warn, could derail Milei's dogged push to achieve a zero budget deficit by the year's end.
  — Isabel Debre, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
• The 23-year-old Black man died just days after the police engaged him in a physical confrontation.
  — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• Many such attacks end with the gunmen dying in confrontations with the police or taking their own lives.
  — Edgar Sandoval, New York Times, 7 July 2023
• Notably, there could be a sequel about Lucy Gray and what happened to her after her confrontation with Snow.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
• The month after the confrontation, parents who had rallied behind Macek and Faber at the school board meeting scored a victory at the polls.
  — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 29 June 2023
• The Loons in 2024 are expected to use a hybrid of the new high-pressing tactic, meaning a line of confrontation that isn’t as advanced.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
• This is at least the second time this year that a confrontation between U.S. drones and Russian fighter jets has occurred.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 6 July 2023
• During Casper’s confrontation, the sheep herder’s five other Great Pyrenees dogs herded the farm's sheep away from the chaos, Wierwille told the paper.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• The groups then got into a confrontation that ended in gunfire, Johnson said.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• During the confrontation, Acosta was stabbed multiple times by one of the men, police said.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• But more to the point, it is filled with lyrics that feel true in their sustained confrontation with the album’s main subject: shattering absence.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 June 2023
• Now, a woman faces charges for the confrontation, according to police.
  — Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Maintaining a safe distance and allowing the snake a clear path to retreat reduces the risk of confrontation.
  — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
• Across the street is the historic Kelly Ingram Park, site of civil rights rallies, demonstrations, and confrontations in the 1960s.
  — The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Wireless Deer Fence website suggests people move away when deer are around and take cover to avoid confrontation.
  — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2023
• Video of the Tuesday night confrontation was released by the Defense Department.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Among a certain set — those who follow campaigns the way others thrill to World Cup soccer — the notion of a face-to-face confrontation between Govs.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024