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Example sentences for "came face"

  • At the very first party he went to, he came face to face with the judge who had tried him.

  • It was Saton who had suddenly turned the corner, and whose expression had certainly darkened for a moment as he came face to face with the two.

  • Presently he came face to face with Lois, walking with Vandermere.

  • The Count stopped for a moment to inquire for letters at the chief porter's bureau, and as we turned away we came face to face with Lord Langerdale.

  • When I came face to face with him he was breathing fast as though he had been running.

  • He pointed with his stick, and it was just at this moment that Louis, rounding the corner from a distant part of the room, came face to face with them.

  • I had sworn since a certain day in the autumn of last year that the first time I came face to face with that man, whether it was in the daytime or the nighttime, in a friend's house or on the street, I would punish him.

  • As he walked and pondered he came face to face with a Youth of striking appearance.

  • He came face to face with his most intimate friend, Andrew Wilmore.

  • One morning, at the corner of Clarges Street and Curzon Street, about three weeks after his visit to the Opera, he came face to face with Sir Timothy Brast.

  • On his way back towards the Sheridan, he came face to face with Margaret Hilditch, issuing from the doors of one of the great steamship companies.

  • At the corner of Green Park, he came face to face with the woman who for the last few months had scarcely been out of his thoughts.

  • In my own mind I had to acknowledge as much, though I wondered what his attitude would be when he came face to face with that stronger man, Bardolph Just.

  • I got into my accustomed window, in those gayer clothes I affected in my brief holidays, and I came face to face with the old man in my room.

  • A weak old man like this wouldn't stand much chance when he came face to face with a strong man armed with that stick.

  • I had begun to convince myself that nothing could, when suddenly I came face to face with the consequences of a possible marriage between Nick and Mademoiselle Antoinette.

  • And so I came face to face with another smile, behind a spying-glass,--a smile so cynical and unpleasant withal that my own was smothered.

  • The chief stepped over the washboard onto the handsome turkey-red cushions on the seats, and thus he came face to face with me.

  • And he came face to face with Miss Trevor.

  • Throwing open the library door, he came face to face with Mr. Seccombe and Mr. Tregonning, two or three shadowy figures bringing up the rear.

  • He came face to face with Dorothy at a bend in the road.

  • Then I went into the plantation, and as I was getting over a hedge I came face to face with the squire.

  • He came face to face with his father ten minutes later, and stared at him in surprise.

  • Just as the Colonel's orderly was crossing the hall of the headquarters building he came face to face with Broussard, headed straight for Colonel Fortescue's office.

  • As she and Broussard met in the sunny hall, brimming with the morning light, Anita walked down the stairs and came face to face with Broussard and Mrs. Lawrence.

  • With Illustrations in Color and from Pen Drawings by Edmund Frederick [Frontispiece: Anita walked down the stairs and came face to face with Broussard and Mrs. Lawrence.

  • Under the glare of a street lamp he came face to face with Colonel Fortescue.

  • On the landing above I came face to face with Moggs, standing outside a door, and looking at me with a scared white face.

  • For in the first place, if I came face to face with him I must confess that I had lied, and that the girl had been in that other house even while he visited it.

  • But as I was going on eagerly to turn the corner of a wall round which she had gone, I came face to face with her; she was turning back, and so had met me.

  • At the gate, having given some instructions to a very stout young coloured woman who, I took it, was her maid, about a basket of flower roots in the cart, she turned round suddenly and we came face to face with the gate between us.

  • The doctoress appeared just as we had risen from breakfast, and Heda, turning round, came face to face with her.

  • A short distance off, I came face to face with Monsieur Voltaire.

  • So I watched for him, and one evening, soon after the carnival, as I was walking along the Rue St. Jacques, I came face to face with Jacques Haret.

  • When we came face to face he involuntarily halted.

  • Well, Lisa, at last, came face to face with Jacques Haret.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came face" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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