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Example sentences for "occasioning"

Lexicographically close words:
occasionally; occasione; occasioned; occasionem; occasioneth; occasions; occasioun; occasyon; occation; occhi
  1. The walls of this room were always whitewashed in the Spring, occasioning ever a sharpened contrast with the dark-brown ceiling.

  2. I said--the recollection of her old grievance coming first in association with her death, and occasioning a more childish speech than belonged to my years.

  3. If Martial loved not Sabidus, it was because their atmospheres could not intermingle without occasioning a kind of storm.

  4. It cures it, too, without occasioning any irritation, annoyance, or ill-humor in the mind either of mother or child.

  5. Now I ask whether it be possible that three quarters of the land of a country can be suffered to pass from a state of tillage to a state of nature without occasioning a fall in rents?

  6. I could almost find in my heart to quarrel with Jack Sheppard for occasioning you so much pain," observed little Winifred Wood, as, having completed her ministration to the best of her ability, she helped Thames on with his coat.

  7. Apologizing to Sir Rowland for this unpleasant reception, and swearing lustily at his servant for occasioning it by leaving the dogs at liberty, Jonathan ordered the man to light them to the audience-room.

  8. If you have not been arrested, we have been disturbed; and it is but just and reasonable you should pay for occasioning such disturbance.

  9. The physical action of the sun-rays in occasioning currents operates through the expansion of water, of which warm portions ascend to the surface, colder portions from beneath setting in to supply their place.

  10. The use of tobacco in this immoderate degree injures the power of digestion, by occasioning the patient to spit out that saliva, which he ought to swallow; and hence produces that flatulency, which the vulgar unfortunately take it to prevent.

  11. It also generally purges, occasioning the discharge of the worm.

  12. The exudations are sero-sanguinolent or fibrinous in character, and sometimes reach the inordinate quantity of four or five pounds, occasioning the patient the utmost distress and embarrassing the respiratory and circulatory functions.

  13. The common liver-fluke frequently occurs in large numbers, even hundreds, in the liver of the sheep, obstructing the bile-ducts and occasioning more or less destruction of the organ.

  14. This delay occasioning much expense and trouble, the government agents applied for assistance to the command at Fort Snelling.

  15. A name given to the Gulf Stream from such a volume of warm water occasioning great perturbations in the atmosphere while traversing the Atlantic Ocean.

  16. Corea[43] and the main land of China, occasioning a very heavy sea.

  17. At this point of land there cometh put a great river,[268] by the stream of which there has been raised a reef or shoal, extending half a mile into the sea from the point, and occasioning a smoother road.

  18. Are there no circumstances under which the fertility of the land, and the plenty of its produce may be diminished, without occasioning a diminished excess of its price above the cost of production, that is to say, a diminished rent?

  19. In years of plenty," he says, "by occasioning an extraordinary exportation, it necessarily keeps up the price of corn in the home market above what it would naturally fall to.

  20. That it was so done for the purpose of occasioning the death of the deceased.

  21. In this culminated a course of legislation repeating with similar results that which began early in the history of our country, occasioning the adage that "The Revolutionary claimant never dies.

  22. The Cariama lives on the ground among the high grasses of the Campos, where the traveller frequently hears its loud screaming cry as he rides along the tracks.

  23. The attack began with several chills; then came a troublesome and almost unceasing cough, very acute pains in the head, back, and abdomen under the left ribs, occasioning want of sleep.

  24. A singular idiosyncrasy was transmitted to her male children by an American Female named Smith, occasioning a severe haemorrhage wherever the skin was slightly pricked or scratched.

  25. We have frequent instances of violence occasioning preternatural developements.

  26. But, if you are determined that I must die, send me into Spain; where, if your king thinks proper to condemn me, I may end my days without occasioning new disturbances to my unhappy country.

  27. Police Fund, and by occasioning that accession of capital, which I have before shewn to be essential before the government can be freed from the burden of supporting the convicts.

  28. This institution might, I am convinced, be founded under a proper system without occasioning any considerable expence.

  29. The body is jolted in a peculiar and very unpleasant manner, occasioning a sense of fatigue that is readily appreciated, though difficult to describe.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occasioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.