bump into

verb

1. informal.
   intr, preposition to meet by chance; encounter unexpectedly

Example Sentences

"Going to Sugar Hut, you didn't know who you were going to bump into," he told BBC Essex.

From BBC

Keep your eyes peeled because you could easily find yourself downward dogging next to Sandra Oh in a Pilates class or bump into Aaron Paul at Albertsons.

From Los Angeles Times

In the Exotic Desert Hideaway — a.k.a. the hotel bar — you might bump into Roman Wrosz, a 68-year-old inventor and longtime local who flies gliders at the otherwise lonely Jacumba airport.

From Los Angeles Times

It's not every day you bump into a Churchill at the Conservative Party conference.

From BBC

Libraries must be protected as places of learning and reading and as spaces "where we bump into each other and make acquaintance and see each other", Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce has said.

From BBC

Related Words

• come across
• meet up with
• run into