How to Use confrontation in a Sentence

confrontation

noun
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  • 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.
  • At this point, we must be committed that this not spill over into a military confrontation.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Officials said the shooting stemmed from a confrontation.
    — Rosana Hughes, ajc, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Thereafter, Maske arrived in the driveway, where there was a confrontation between Aanerud and Maske.
    — Tim Speier, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Officials said the shooting stemmed from a confrontation at the house party in Douglasville, a city about 20 miles west of Atlanta.
    — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Joel finds Ellie, emerging from the burning wreckage of her violent final confrontation with David, covered in his blood.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Only the possibility of a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran moved the needle.
    — Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In their final confrontation, Miller threatened to kill herself, which was particularly challenging for Dae because a soldier from his unit had died by suicide.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 8 Mar. 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
  • After the game, Propst said his son was about to run on the field to join a confrontation between other players.
    — Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, 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

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