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Example sentences for "circumstance"

Lexicographically close words:
circumscribing; circumscription; circumspect; circumspection; circumspectly; circumstanced; circumstances; circumstantial; circumstantiality; circumstantially
  1. The circumstance in the last stanza, "I rose up and went on my way, and passed the mountain summits, crying aloud 'Selvaggia!

  2. A very disappointing circumstance to Soltikof; "Austrian Junction still a problem, then; a thing in the air?

  3. This is the circumstance related by the said Verville, and I suspect he was cracking a joke.

  4. While these plans and arrangements were yet immature, a circumstance occurred which threatened, for a time, wholly to defeat them.

  5. It is supposed that such satisfaction arose from the circumstance that the repose of his household is rendered complete by the absence of its excitable mistress, whom he has left in New York.

  6. How should she account for his strange silence, and the still stranger circumstance of his hurrying at once to the haunts of fashion, without once visiting the city of his birth and the sister of his adoption?

  7. Gertrude did not observe this circumstance until she was preparing to direct her letter.

  8. Every little pebble of circumstance took new color under its touch.

  9. Indeed I suspect that it was the latter circumstance which, when once this elaborate composition had come to be prized, gave rise to the, surely deliberate, destruction of the evidence for its absence here.

  10. And even this circumstance alone would cause her spiritual lights and fully conscious experiences to come abruptly, and in the form of quasi-physical seizures and surprises.

  11. And the circumstance of the scribe being a disciple of the stigmatized St. Francis, and the probability that Argentina was still accessible, conjoin to render the absence of these paragraphs from this MS.

  12. Perhaps by a strange perversity of circumstance the home-longing of the mother was in the child transformed into a clinging fondness for the place where the former was so lonely and alien.

  13. The circumstance was recalled afterward when the slab was placed above her grave in Copp's Hill burial-ground.

  14. The circumstance was in itself sufficiently curious and unusual to excite his attention, and it recalled to his mind the plant he had given to Mistress Henshaw.

  15. He was standing apparently upon a small rug, a circumstance which at the moment impressed Vantine more than his mysterious presence.

  16. One circumstance has operated very favorably for our comfort.

  17. We have not a great variety of amusements on board our vessel, and such a circumstance as this serves to infuse a good deal of life into us.

  18. There is another little circumstance that adds to our cheerfulness.

  19. Although she was by force of circumstance a Suffragist, she did not for one moment imagine that with the coming of votes for women the whole industrial and social problem of the country would be solved.

  20. To this man, forced by circumstance into a more or less secluded state of life, Toni's lack of social experience weighed very lightly.

  21. Rebi now related to him the whole circumstance of his son's affliction, adding: 'Tell me, is his mistress dead or alive?

  22. The circumstance gave them both an impression that the shadow was a desperate man, and that he was accustomed to fierce brawls.

  23. Mr. Dudley was very much frightened and distressed; and I think the circumstance hastened his departure from Davy's Bend, which occurred a few weeks later.

  24. I hope it accounts for the circumstance that she never looks like a woman should.

  25. She was pleased with the circumstance that he admired Annie Benton, and though she said a great deal in her praise, it was no more than the truth, for she was a girl worthy of admiration and respect.

  26. I have an ambition to be a young widow myself, but owing to the circumstance that I have been defrauded of my rights, at present I look like a married woman with six children who does not get along with her husband.

  27. In my loneliness hereafter that circumstance will be a satisfaction, and it will be a pleasure to believe that the sunshine was brighter because of my brief stay in it.

  28. This circumstance presented great facilities for the reclamation of land along the shores, and the inhabitants of Ober Meilen proceeded to rescue from the water some of the land thus temporarily exposed.

  29. A single circumstance may suffice to give a notion of the pomp and luxury of his camp.

  30. He found, however, that there was one disagreeable circumstance connected with his new office.

  31. This fact may be partly explained by the circumstance that the editors were, at first, on their good behaviour.

  32. But those who have blamed the severity with which Keyes was treated have altogether omitted to notice the important circumstance which distinguished his case from that of every other conspirator.

  33. Of the debates to which it gave occasion nothing is known except one interesting circumstance which has been preserved by tradition.

  34. Because, not finding the motion and the life all we expected, we are shocked as by a falsehood, every circumstance of detail, which before induced you to be interested, making the distance from truth more palpable.

  35. This it was (a circumstance overlooked by many who have written on the Roman literature), this destiny announced and protected by early auguries, which made the idea of Rome a great and imaginative idea.

  36. I dwelt forcibly upon the circumstance of Tyrrell's having mentioned to me, that Thornton was aware of the large sum he had on his person, and of the strange disappearance of that sum, when his body was examined in the fatal field.

  37. My mysterious pursuit of Tyrrell, the disguise I had assumed, the circumstance of my passing you on the road and of my flight when you approached, all spoke volumes against me.

  38. I remembered the accomplished character of Mr. Job Jonson, and the circumstance of my having seen him in company with Thornton.

  39. Every one considered that this was a most advantageous circumstance for me, and congratulated my father and mother; for Mr. Masterman was a bachelor, of nearly sixty years, without any near relations.

  40. Chapter LVIII For nearly a fortnight, the work upon the stockade continued without any intermission, when a circumstance occurred which created the greatest alarm and excitement.

  41. But a circumstance occurred, which was the occasion of great alarm to them all; which was, that one evening William was taken with a shivering, and complained very much of a pain in his head.

  42. At once she knew That some faint soul, in sad extreme, Had sent for succor to the manse, And knew its master would redeem To sacred use the circumstance That made such havoc of her dream.

  43. In the excitement of trapping the "vermin," I had forgotten the circumstance of my having placed the cloth within the empty barrel.

  44. The strange circumstance of my finding the water, with the consequent escape from death by thirst, had something in it of a nature almost miraculous: something that suggested the hand of Providence stretched forth in my favour.

  45. But first let me tell of a circumstance that occurred at this date, and which quite changed the current of my existence.

  46. I had not drunk, then, and this was a fortunate circumstance, though far more fortunate was the circumstance that I had thirsted.

  47. How long I cannot tell; but its spell was at length broken by a circumstance that once more put my senses on the alert.

  48. I had experienced already what a misfortune it would be, since, but for the lucky circumstance of the brandy-cask, the plan I was now about to attempt would have been altogether impracticable.

  49. However, I was too much joyed at the circumstance of our having started, to speculate upon the strangeness of the hour.

  50. Now, however, my altered prospects caused me to regard the circumstance with very different ideas.

  51. The uselessness of philosophers is explained by the circumstance that mankind will not use them.

  52. There is nothing surprising in the circumstance that those who were seeking for order in nature and had found order in number, should have imagined one to give law to the other.

  53. This explanation derives a certain plausibility from the circumstance that 8000 is the ancient number of the Spartan citizens (Herod.

  54. Thirty Tyrants, but no allusion is here made to his fate, nor to the circumstance that Cephalus and his family were of Syracusan origin, and had migrated from Thurii to Athens.

  55. This is proved by the circumstance that there are pleasures which have no antecedent pains (as he also remarks in the Philebus), such as the pleasures of smell, and also the pleasures of hope and anticipation.

  56. It is apparently to this circumstance that Boccaccio alludes in the text.

  57. Besides, the very circumstance that the usurper was his mother's husband filled him with some remorse, and still blunted the edge of his purpose.

  58. Nor can it be argued that his style has been spoilt by the circumstance that he writes in various languages, for in none of his work is there epigram, imagery or imagination--the glorious trinity of the stylists.

  59. Moreover he publishes the circumstance joyfully, insulting his drunken father and making the sin of his father known to his brothers as if he had a piece of good news.

  60. If you regard only the outward circumstance and the words, even Pharaoh was baptized, but he perished with his men, while Israel passed through safe and unharmed.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumstance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjunct; adventure; appurtenance; aspect; axiom; bearings; case; circumstance; component; condition; constituent; contents; contingency; datum; destiny; detail; development; doom; element; episode; estate; event; eventuality; experience; fact; factor; fate; feature; fix; fixings; footing; formality; hap; happening; heraldry; incident; ingredient; item; jam; juncture; location; lot; makings; matter; modality; mode; occasion; occurrence; part; particular; pass; phenomenon; pickle; place; plight; pomp; portion; position; postulate; posture; predicament; pride; rank; reality; situation; solemnity; specialty; spot; standing; state; station; status; thing; weird


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    circumstances might; circumstances permit; circumstances should; circumstances will; circumstances would