When our troops were having difficulty dislodging Grenadian soldiers from their main fortress, Marine tanks were sailed around the island to confront them.
We should confront him and demand that he give a full accounting in the final report Otherwise we all could end up being part of some conspiracy.
I'm going to confront him about that," she said "I damned well want some answers before I just turn myself over to him.
Had it in some way deranged the mechanism, causing the Automaton to turn in its tracks and confront Locke as he charged forward?
There was only one thing to do and that was to confront Doctor Q at once and force him to a full explanation.
Her object was to get him to consent to her escape, so that she could inform Locke and Eva of her discovery and all three confront Doctor Q and wrest from him the story.
I must go to him, meet him, and confront him, and insist that mercy be shown to these poor, terrified people.
Like a startled tree-cat the figure sprang to its feet, whirling to confront me.
Rumblings, loud and persistent, presaging a crisis of extreme severity in world affairs, confrontthem with a challenge which, in spite of what they have already accomplished, they cannot and must not either ignore or underrate.
Let us therefore be very sure that our premises are sound and our deduction sure before we confront him.
These economists, therefore, it may be well to confront with a brief history of one or two of our largest combinations.
Confront dire Fate, and challenge meagre Death: 'Tis not in them to moulder thee to dust.
Shoghi Effendi was very sad to hear of your difficulties, especially as they have encompassed you at an age when you cannot confront them but must have comfort and peace.
They confront the others’ taunts and curses with prayers that God will forgive them, and their reply to the wounds of bullet and sword is to offer milk and honey.
And precisely similar phenomena confront us in the glacial deposits of the neighbourhood of Lago Lugano.
Now, speaking in general terms, we may say that similar facts confront us in connection with every true mountain-range in central Europe.
The final advance towards the frontier was not to be undertaken until the Divisions and Corps were all collected, and provided with the all-necessary baggage train; and then proceed in a state of readiness to confront the enemy at any moment.
The most dangerous fate that can confront a nation is that after the death of an able ruler the system of administration he has established disappears with him; but this the constitutional form of government is able to avert.
I will not discuss the question: as to whether there being no righteous and able heir-apparent to succeed his Emperor-father, great danger may not confront the nation.
But probably at this period a comprehensive shifting of peoples from the north-east towards the Black Sea took place, and the Roman frontier-guard on the lower Danube had to confront new and more dangerous opponents.
I oft have seen her, with the fit Of inspiration in her soul, confront the gods, And force the very heavens to her will.
But ere you yet confront the foe, First seek the halls of Dis below, Pass deep Avernus' vale, and meet Your father in his own retreat.
Never before did an opportunity to render such great service to mankind confront the educated youth as confronts you to-day.
He has no power to seize the facts whichconfront him and compel them to serve him.
To turn against; to confront in hostility or anger.
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
He was a sensitive, conscientious person whose life should have been in the vale; and yet at that moment he had a fierce desire to confront Jethro Bass and--and destroy him.
Hardly had he entered the room when he heard a sound behind him, and turned to confront Alison.
He never knew the effort it cost her to rise and confront him.
We were about to pass through the group of loungers that loitered by the gate when the sound of rapid footsteps arrested us, and we turned to confront two panting and perspiring young men who halted beside us.
She reached the platform to confront a group of upturned, staring faces, and for the moment her courage failed her.
I turned to confront a little man with grizzled, chestnut eyebrows.
It had come into her mind abruptly; and always, when she sought to reassure herself, to declare her terror absurd, it returned to confront her.
Were there so many Victorias, that a new one--and a strange one--should confronthim at every meeting?
They passed within a few feet of Victoria, who resisted an almost uncontrollable impulse to rise and confront them.
I was anxious to see my grandfather, and to confront Grafton Carvel with his villany.
I dropped the curtain, and turned to confront Nancy, who had entered noiselessly.
But they were always there ready to confront him with his own mis-doings.
He was about to confront the man who had dishonestly sent him to a convict's cell, and a deadly bitterness surged through his veins.
Hanlon jumped to his feet and swung to confront his foe.
Hanlon got up leisurely, but walked purposefully over to confront the Greenie.
The indignant exile, journeying so boldly to confrontthe peril of which he had no suspicion or forewarning, belonged to a species confined to the forests of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia or the neighbourhood of their boundaries.
But the big muskrat, from the house in the alders, was denied the joy of battle, because none of his rivals were so hardy as to confront him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confront" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
