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 confrontation underscored the high-stakes risks of the conflict.
  — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• But what if every battle, even the first wave, represented a monster confrontation?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Despite their imposing size, black bears are generally shy and prefer to avoid confrontation with humans.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• And healing does abide with this little family, without anyone having to address it any further, without emotional confrontations, without anything but time and weather.
  — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
• The confrontation, however, stemmed from Paul’s comments about Mayweather that apparently crossed the line from the usual trash talk between fighters.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The victim called Mills' wife later that evening and Mills' wife seemed unaware of the confrontation earlier in the evening, the complaint states.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2024
• If two people don’t see eye-to-eye on how to spend their money, a lack of transparency may seep in to avoid confrontation.
  — Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 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
• During the confrontation, the armed suspect fired the gun and caused shrapnel injuries to the child, according to police.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
• On Wednesday, Fitzgerald said it was alleged that Drakes was armed with a gun during the confrontation.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Mar. 2023
• Tourists caught in the crossfire of Barcelona’s July protest — some of whom endured water guns and confrontations caught on tape — may not be inclined to return.
  — Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
• None of the candidates who spoke to NBC News said confrontations like those dampened their political ambitions.
  — Isabela Espadas Barros Leal, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024