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• The dispatches[...]also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
• This proposal meets my requirements.
• OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
• Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
• The eye met a horrid sight.  He met his fate.
• Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[...]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
• This proposal meets my requirements.  The company agrees to meet the cost of any repairs.
• The carpet meets the wall at this side of the room. The forest meets the sea along this part of the coast.
• The right wing of the car met the column in the garage, leaving a dent.
• Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner.
• The two streets meet at a crossroad half a mile away.
• England and Holland will meet in the final.
• Fancy meeting you here!  Guess who I met at the supermarket today?
• Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
• Sir said Epynegrys is þt the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll / As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy / for here is for me / And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
• At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[...]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
• I met with them several times.  The government ministers met today to start the negotiations.
• Captain Edward Carlisle[...]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
• I met my husband through a mutual friend at a party. It wasn't love at first sight; in fact, we couldn't stand each other at first!
• I'm pleased to meet you!  I'd like you to meet a colleague of mine.
• With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
• Let's meet at the station at 9 o'clock.  Shall we meet at 8 p.m in our favorite chatroom?
• Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away