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Idioms and Phrases
Confront, as in When he was faced with the evidence, he admitted it . [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
One officer was hit in the face with a bottle and required medical attention, the mayor’s office said.
For hundreds of hours over the course of the trial, Le Scouarnec has come face to face with dozens of his victims and their relatives.
Keenan said the evidence didn’t show that Kirk sprayed Houston in the face with an intent to cause bodily injury.
A 92-year-old care home resident in a wheelchair was sprayed in the face with synthetic pepper spray before being Tasered and hit with a baton by police officers, a jury has been told.
Possessing no eyes, no mouth and no face, with an almost alien lurching gait, that nightmarish figure will reappear every so often, its return always upsetting and unexplained.
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