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Example sentences for "extraordinary occasions"

  • When he drinks in public, as he does on extraordinary occasions, he hides himself behind a curtain, or handkerchiefs are held up round his head, and all the people throw themselves with their faces to the earth.

  • Human sacrifices were offered to the Earth Goddess by tribes, branches of tribes, or villages, both at periodical festivals and on extraordinary occasions.

  • He may convene them on extraordinary occasions.

  • The Hudson-Bay traders call it an "Indian copper," and said it was only exhibited on extraordinary occasions, and that its value to the tribe was estimated at fifteen slaves or two hundred blankets.

  • XI-26] Yet their gods were not by any means so blood-thirsty as the Mexican, being generally appeased by the blood of animals, and human sacrifices were called for only on extraordinary occasions.

  • That is to say, the Sahaptins use their court language on all ordinary, as well as extraordinary occasions, keeping the jargon for their servants, while the Cayuses employ the baser tongue for common, and the higher for state occasions.

  • They are called ordinary or extraordinary legates, the former governing provinces, and the latter class being sent to foreign countries on extraordinary occasions.

  • A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extraordinary occasions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another section; cold bath; cuneiform inscriptions; dear grandpa; dear lass; extraordinary beauty; extraordinary degree; extraordinary manner; extraordinary occasions; extraordinary session; extraordinary size; family names; free persons; heavy crop; kusa grass; little nearer; manner aforesaid; more accurate; theological virtue; this change; this part; though probably; thus forming; turning quickly; vertebral column; woman must