How to use "met" in a sentence

When we first met, he shook my hand and smiled at me.

Then I met a man, and we came to Boston

Next, I met a teacher from Harvard University, but he was married

And it was in the jungle that I met Big Sam - a man who taught me to play chess

But who do you think we met there? Sue, the ape! He was in another film!

In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory

It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations

They decided to continue on their way to work and tell the first policeman they met.

When she met her friend Amelia Palmer on September 2nd and 3rd she showed her the black eye and a bruise on her face

However, in 1887 she met Joe Barnett, a porter at Billingsgate fish market

Hutchinson's statement begins, 'About 2.00 a.m., 9th, I met the murdered woman, Kelly, and she said to me, "Hutchinson, will you lend me sixpence?"' So he and Mary knew each other

A short time later, he met a priest on horseback.

Then one day, as he was passing, thinking about nothing in particular, the girl looked up at him and their eyes met

Finally he left the Gardens in the mad hope of seeing her in the street, but instead he met Enjolras, who invited him to a meal.

During that month of May in the year 1832, Cosette and Marius met every day in the wild garden of that small, secret house

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest

"To remind you of the day we met."

Sala and Cham left, and met three friends in another space - Niki, and two boys named Palo and Ding

They met with friends, especially Palo and Ding, who were entering the pods as well

I met her again

Then they met Niki, Palo, and Ding in a cafe for taste-pots

"I met her on the walkway

She met Cham's eyes

Billy met Max de Winter in London

'I met you at my nephew's party, in London

The tall trees met over our heads

She asked me how I had met Maxim

'I was telling her about how we met

'You never met her then?' the woman asked

I met him once, years ago.'

I met Robert in the dining-room.

She met her friends there

'I've met him,' I said

When the aisle in front of her booth was finally empty of well-wishers, Tina got up and met Joel as he started to come to her

But before she realized what was happening, their lips met softly, briefly

Elliot met the stranger's eyes and didn't look away.

Kennebeck had known Alexander for five years and had despised him from the day they met

He looked at Tina, and she met his eyes.

"Her mind was messed up before I ever met her."

She couldn't pinpoint what else about his eyes made him so different from any eyes she had ever seen, but as she met Danny's gaze, a shiver passed through her, and she felt a profound and terrible pity for him.

Tina met Elliot's eyes, and she knew that the same thought was running through both their minds

Because I was never in the room with both partners, getting a thoughtful response to a story note I'd given was impossible, because neither could speak for the other and could only promise to consult when next they met at the deathbed of whatever beloved person expired that week.

On Thursday, I was leaving the church and going home for lunch when I met Colonel Protheroe.

'I've just met him outside.'

I've never met a man more different from his name

'Remember, I met him just outside the gate

'Well, I shall never forget his face when I met him outside my gate, or the way he said, "Oh, you'll see Protheroe all right!" That should have made me suspect what had just happened.' Haydock stared at me

Dr Stone met them and they walked together to the village

'How could I have thought for one minute that Anne did it? I met her in the studio that afternoon...' He paused.

So I met Mrs Protheroe that evening at a quarter past six and told her my decision

Then we left the studio, and met Dr Stone, and I went off with him to the Blue Boar for a drink

Just outside the gate, I met the vicar

We - we often met in the woods afterwards.'

When I got back to the vicarage, Griselda met me in the hall

'I met him at a dinner not long ago and we had a most interesting talk

I soon came to the place where I had met Lawrence and continued on further

Then he left the vicarage, and met you outside, Vicar

And remember, Vicar that you met Mr Redding carrying a large stone in that same place in the woods where you found the picric acid later.'

When you met him, he had just picked up the stone to take it away.'

I do not think I would have known anything about it myself if I had not met Ogilvy, the well-known astronomer

He met some local people who were up early, but the story he told and his appearance were so wild that they would not listen to him

In Wellington Street my brother met two men selling newspapers which had just been printed

My brother turned towards Victoria station, and met a number of people like these

And where it met with water, or even mist or wet grass, a chemical action took place and it turned into a powder that sank slowly and made room for more.

He saw few other refugees until he met the two ladies who later travelled with him

My brother heard that about half the members of the government had met in Birmingham, in central England, and that enormous amounts of explosive were being prepared to be used in the Midlands

I had no regrets about this, but in the stillness of the night, with a sense that God was near, I thought again of every part of our conversation from the time we had first met

'Effie, my wife was a young widow only twenty-five years old, when I met her

She met me after six months in England

'Have you ever met anyone who knew your wife in America?'

When I met you by chance and learned to love you, I was afraid to tell you about my child

The following evening we met again to discuss our plans

We met in the evening to pack our suitcases

In the maze, they met some people who had been there for forty-five minutes

In this area, King Henry VIII met with his sweetheart, I Anne Boleyn

I am certain that King Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in several other places, too.

On the way back, Montmorency met a cat

In the garden we met her sister, Miss Fairlie

They first met in Rome

I have never before met a man like Count Fosco

'I just met Anne Catherick by the lake! She looked ill and talked to me strangely

When she met me she told me - very gently - that my love was dead.

His mother was already married when his father - Sir F - met her

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick

In answer to your questions, I never met Sir Percival Glyde, and he certainly never came to Varneck Hall

Now that she was better, my heart began to beat fast again when she was near me, our hands began to shake when they met.

'You know that I've loved Laura since the day we met

Immense necessity! Universal want! We discovered this common problem when we met in Europe after Percival's marriage

There, at Blackwater Park, I met the magnificent creature who is inscribed on my heart as 'Marian'

On my third day by the lake, I met Anne

I met Lady Glyde at the station with a carriage, but it was not my carriage: it was the carriage of the doctor from the asylum

But the fight for equal education has met many problems

In the next few years, Malala met with girls around the world, and she met with many politicians, like the President of the USA, Barack Obama

In 1929, when she was twenty-one years old, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher

There she met Pierre Curie, who became her husband

In the 1890s, Nancy met Robert Gould Shaw