Synonyms for come up against

Grammar : Verb

Top 10 synonyms for come up against

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Définition of come up against

As in meet : verb happen on
As in stumble : verb happen upon
As in taste : verb experience
As in confront : verb challenge

Example sentences :

She had spent them all, and had come up against the wall of blank despair.
Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine

The Exeter team is the best-trained one we'll come up against.
Extract from : « Hester's Counterpart » by Jean K. Baird

It was not as if she, like me, had come up against a wall that she could not pass.
Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes

But it will be different when I come up against the American Leaguers.
Extract from : « Baseball Joe in the World Series » by Lester Chadwick

Never have I come up against anything like what is going on over there in Canada.
Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor

But they had come up against an impenetrable abatis of brush.
Extract from : « The World with a Thousand Moons » by Edmond Hamilton

But this was the most difficult proposition that she had ever come up against.
Extract from : « Exit Betty » by Grace Livingston Hill

She certainly would be careful not to come up against him again.
Extract from : « Ditte: Girl Alive! » by Martin Andersen Nexo

He's got to come up against all sorts of exasperations on his job, too.
Extract from : « The Sturdy Oak » by Samuel Merwin, et al.

And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us?
Extract from : « The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version » by Various

Antonyms for come up against

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