How to use "facing" in a sentence

Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today

The easel lay on the carpet, the chalkboard facing down.

A three-sided, fan-shaped tent had been erected on the back lawn, to one side of the sixty-foot pool, with the open side facing the house

He put the pistol on his lap, the muzzle facing toward his door, away from Tina

She was no longer afraid of facing the awful truth that might be waiting in Reno

Still recovering, my brother found himself facing the man who had held the horse's head, and realized that the cart was moving away along the road

The big man tripped over him, and when my brother got to his feet he found himself facing both of them