But since that brief and unfortunate encounter, he had told himself two things.

The essay documents a man's anecdotal account of an unfortunate encounter with a strange being.

If it were not, strangers would suspect I'd had an unfortunate encounter with a light socket.

There would be much less chance of unfortunate encounters along something like that.

"And I understand that it was very little distraction earlier this evening, when you had to deal with what could have been a-an unfortunate encounter."

"I was coming from the shopping center when the unfortunate encounter took place," she said later.

You had an unfortunate encounter with a Marauder, class 11.

Do not judge all men to be the same after one unfortunate encounter.

They'd had some unfortunate encounter with the constabulary and wished to be taken home.

Miles had been assiduously avoiding the base commander ever since their first unfortunate encounter.