be confronted by
Example Sentences
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Starmer said "any adversary must know that in a crisis they could be confronted by our combined strength" alongside France.
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
“There is an enormous act of care in providing people a place where they can be confronted by themselves,” Trapman-O’Brien says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2025
He pointed to the plight of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the doomed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, who offered evasive answers in his own trial only to be confronted by hard evidence of alleged fraud.
From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2023
An earnest anti-war ballad, Remo Forrer's song follows two childhood friends who used to play army games in the back garden; only to be confronted by the horrors of war as grown-ups.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023
Really, Mr Stevens, I can just imagine your face if you were to be confronted by them now.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
