MET in a Sentence

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For MET, below is one of 315 sentences:
As he reached the door he met Zeena coming back into the room, her lips twitching with anger, a flush of excitement on her sallow face.

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 Meanings and Examples of MET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
met
 v.  past tense and past participle of MEET
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The two leaned forward at the same moment and their hands met on the handle of the jug.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  As she passed Ethan's chair their eyes met and clung together desolately.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  As he reached the door he met Zeena coming back into the room, her lips twitching with anger, a flush of excitement on her sallow face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  The dark cedars on either side of the graveled drive met in an arch overhead, turning the long avenue into a dim tunnel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Gerald, riding ahead, pulled up his horse and signed to Toby to stop the carriage where the two roads met.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  He dropped his eyes because her own green ones met his so piercingly, almost as if she were not seeing him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  She said, "Oh," again and their eyes met and the fluttering lashes were his undoing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  With quiet restored and with the new sights that met her eyes, Scarlest's spirits began to rise a little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  Over his head the eyes of the parents met and Scarlett saw the look.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  There were so many uniforms in the crowd--so many uniforms on so many men whom Scarlett knew, men she had met on hospital cots, on the streets, at the drill ground.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  With young girls and young married women, you slopped over with sugar and kissed them every time you met them, even if it was ten times a day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  She looked up at him imploringly, her face crimson with the shame of their last meeting, and met two of the blackest eyes she had ever seen, dancing in merciless merriment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  She met his eyes unwillingly and saw they were as teasing as a small boy's.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
16  I met a man with whom I used to work.
17  She's the woman whom I met in Greece.
18  She brought with her three friends, none of whom I had ever met before.
19  Elizabeth met other Oxford intellectuals some of whom overlapped Naomi's world.
20  He flatly denied ever having met the woman.
21  I was talking to a woman I met on the flight.
22  Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
23  The world is so big but I met you, while the world is so small that I lost you in the end.
24  They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.
25  We met on a coach tour in Italy.
26  He insisted that the conflict would continue until conditions were met for a ceasefire.
27  He met her on the tennis court.
28  She met with an old friend at a dinner party.
29  The two foreign ministers did not address each other directly when they last met.
30  Senior politicians met today to discuss the future of European economic unity.