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.
  • Trump was not at the White House at the time of the confrontation.
    — Avery Lotz, Axios, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The confrontation stopped and restarted as the man appeared to try to get the knife away from Perez over the fence.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Quinn hasn't been one to back down from on-camera confrontation in the past.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
  • In the wake of the confrontation, Pakistan closes its airspace.
    — CNN, 13 Sep. 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 a confrontation, the suspects began to leave in their car and one fired a shot at the injured man.
    — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2022
  • During the confrontation, the two men were shot, and both died on scene, officers said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • After the game, Propst said his son was about to run on the field to join a confrontation between other players.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], 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
  • There's that great sequence in the finale, where Galadriel and Sauron have that confrontation.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Obi-Wan asks Vader during their confrontation in the third episode.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
  • 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
  • Any of those could provide the spark for a more dangerous confrontation.
    — New York Times, 27 July 2022
  • The confrontation in May 2016 prompted Heard to file for divorce two days later.
    — CBS News, 16 May 2022
  • The Stirling family’s statement says that the video appears to show Stirling moving away from the officer when he was shot, although the video shows that the officer’s and Stirling’s movements at the end of the confrontation were fast-moving.
    — Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 8 May 2025
  • What sparked the confrontation remains under investigation by police, who allege those involved in the fight, with exception of the victim, were affiliated with gangs.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025

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