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.
• Instead, try to be bolder and stay open to confrontation—especially when it’s done with pure intent.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2024
• But if there’s an inkling you might be faced with political or ideological confrontation, don’t force socializing.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 6 Dec. 2024
• There’s something really extraordinary and heroic in her confrontation with that regime.
  — Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
• Tuesday’s meeting is expected to draw a much larger crowd in the wake of a violent confrontation between De León and a group of his detractors.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Following an eight-day trial in August of last year, a jury of six women and two men concluded that Hutchins did not use excessive force during the confrontation.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2022
• That was the worst military confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, who share a 2,000-mile largely mountainous border, in more than five decades.
  — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 13 Dec. 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 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
• Contee said there was no confrontation between Lewis and Blake before the shot was fired.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Jan. 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

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024