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Example sentences for "occurs"

Lexicographically close words:
occurrence; occurrences; occurreth; occurring; occurrit; ocean; oceangoing; oceanic; oceanica; oceanographic
  1. In the cold regions of the northern lowlands peat occurs in beds of immense thickness.

  2. Lastly, Handel's primitive opening rhythmic figures inevitably underlie every subsequent inner part and bass that occurs at every half close and full close throughout the movement, especially where the trumpets are used.

  3. The effect is the same that occurs in the case of Jupiter and the asteroids, Saturn taking the place of the Sun, his satellites that of Jupiter, and the rings that of the asteroids.

  4. In compliance with your highness's command, we shall relate what occurs in those islands with all faithfulness and diligence.

  5. It is a singular circumstance that the form of this oath, which was repeated in official publications, with an emphasis itself inexplicable, occurs in only one of the conspirators' confessions, viz.

  6. The only allusion to it I have been able to find occurs in the Politician's Catechism (1658), p.

  7. Precisely the same repetition occurs in the sixth of Mr. Attorney's suggested questions.

  8. Corpus Christi College, Oxford, among some interesting notes concerning the Plot, of which we shall see more, occurs the statement that "the Lord Monteagle knew there was a letter to be sent to him before it came.

  9. We are not aware that the cross occurs as a mint mark on the coins of Richard III.

  10. We next pass to the year 1669, though I should not mention to you the short notice of London Bridge by Lorenzo Magalotti, which occurs in ‘The Travels of Cosmo III.

  11. You will observe that this passage, which occurs in volume i.

  12. These grants are also in the Tower, and the first occurs in the Patent Roll of the 10th of Edward I.

  13. It is a rather small quarto volume, of 71 written leaves, delicately paged by some later hand; and the passage occurs on the reverse of folio 11.

  14. Where an ellipsis occurs and the meaning is not obvious, there is a pause to give time to realize the logical connection: I'd rather rove with Edmund there Than reign our English queen.

  15. Macaulay This lesson is an exercise on Inflection, especially as it occurs on antithetical words or phrases and on series of words or phrases parallel in construction.

  16. This is a mistake; the passage occurs in the first book.

  17. III, of the present play we have omitted a line which occurs in all the Quartos, except the first, and all the Folios, because it could not be retained without absolute detriment to the sense.

  18. The interruption of their progress by Prince Unexpected's temporary forgetfulness may be explained as the temporary cessation of warm weather and return of a kind of secondary winter, which often occurs in early spring.

  19. It occurs in the Dream of Fair Women, st.

  20. Besides, it occurs to me that once our tents are destroyed we shall find ourselves in sad need of them.

  21. Unless, of course, something occurs to prevent our despatching the food, 'said the headman.

  22. Neither word has taken with the blacks; neither word occurs in their traditions.

  23. The ride of the beardless one, if so, occurs at the Sacaean date.

  24. The slaying occurs only in one place, as the Persians had only one king.

  25. The editor and discoverer of the Greek text in which the legend occurs at full length, Professor Franz Cumont of Ghent, at first held that as far as the sacrifice of the military mock-king goes the story is false.

  26. It occurs in June-July, or June-September, and Tammuz is undoubtedly the god of spring vegetation.

  27. Here occurs no hint of sacrificing Dasius as Saturn; Bassus expects him to throw incense on the flame, and to continue an honourable soldier of the Empire.

  28. It also occurs in the blood of Planorbis corneus and in the pharyngeal muscles of other mollusca.

  29. It is very abundant in the Zoological Gardens in London, where it occurs in conjunction with a much smaller imported species Phyllodromia germanica, which may also be seen in some of the cheaper restaurants.

  30. In the same species, however, great variation occurs in the development of the mandibles, and the breadth of the head varies correspondingly, the smallest type of male being but little different in appearance from the female.

  31. Pandermite comes from Asia Minor, and is shipped from the port of Panderma on the Sea of Marmora: it occurs as large nodules, up to a ton in weight, beneath a thick bed of gypsum.

  32. Riley, who finds that the young larva, hatched from the egg laid on the pod, has three pairs of legs, and that these are lost after the moult that occurs when the grub has bored its way into the seed.

  33. Colocynthein also occurs as such in the drug, together with at least two other resins, citrullin and colocynthiden.

  34. The plant occurs wild in woods and thickets in England and Ireland, and flowers in early summer.

  35. The physiological action of coffee mainly depends on the presence of the alkaloid caffeine, which occurs also in tea, Paraguay tea, and cola nuts, and is very similar to theobromine, the active principle in cocoa.

  36. This power is widely prevalent in fish, and also occurs in Amphibia and Reptilia (the chameleon affording a well-known example).

  37. In vertebrates the latter is generally accompanied by haemoglobin, but in invertebrates--with the exception of the pharyngeal muscles of the mollusca--it occurs alone.

  38. Asphalt occurs in the high north rim of Middle Park (c.

  39. The same result occurs from the contact of a hot or greasy hand or the spilling of a spot of water no matter how quickly removed.

  40. It never occurs to us to think of Queen Elizabeth as a needlewoman, yet to a certain extent she must have been one, for history tells us of a cambric smock which she made and presented to her brother Edward when he was six years old.

  41. It rarely occurs in crystals, and where found in place is always associated with the magnesium-bearing rocks, peridotite or serpentine.

  42. Almandite usually occurs in metamorphic rocks, such as gneisses or mica schists; also in granite.

  43. The almandite of Alaska shown in the accompanying plate occurs in great quantities near the mouth of the Stickeen river, but has not been extensively cut on account of its being too opaque.

  44. I answer Mr. Wallace by citing a remarkable passage which occurs in his instructive paper on "Instinct in Man and Animals.

  45. The only modification which it occurs to me to suggest in this general view of the Phylogeny of the Vertebrata is, that the "Protamphirhine" was possibly more ganoid than shark-like.

  46. It first occurs in France, as told of Sybilla, a fabulous wife of Charlemagne; but it is at any rate as old as the time of Plutarch, who relates it as an anecdote of brute sagacity in the days of Pyrrhus.

  47. This beautiful species, which is also found in Europe, is not uncommon in the State of Maine as far south as Bangor, and occurs also in Nova Scotia, and ranges thence westward to Ottawa and the Hudson Bay country.

  48. United States, where it is generally replaced by the following species; but it occasionally occurs in the hot lands of the extreme southern portion of Texas.

  49. The species occurs in New England, New York, and westward to Wisconsin.

  50. The species occurs in western Texas and Arizona.

  51. Brizo occurs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ranging from the latitude of New England to that of Arizona.

  52. This species occurs in Arizona and Mexico.

  53. This pretty little butterfly occurs in Labrador, across the continent as far west as northern Alaska, and is also occasionally taken upon the alpine summits of the Rocky Mountains as far south as Colorado.

  54. It occurs in southern Florida and Texas, and thence ranges southward over Cuba, Mexico, and Central America.

  55. The species occurs in Montana, Minnesota, British America, and Newfoundland.

  56. Reakirt says that this butterfly occurs about Los Angeles, in California, and the statement has been repeated by numerous authors, who have apparently based their assertions upon Reakirt's report.

  57. It occurs in southern Florida and Texas, and elsewhere in tropical America.

  58. It also occurs in Arizona and southern California.

  59. This species occurs in Utah and Idaho, and is possibly a varietal form of A.

  60. I'd come with you, but it occurs to me that the wretched Potts, bathed in tears at the Carlton, is in need of sympathy.

  61. There is a question which occurs to me, Count, before I make up my mind on the matter.

  62. The objection to this method of translation is, that [Greek: archai] occurs immediately afterwards in the sense of "principles.

  63. The second sense (in which it occurs next, just below) is "Moral Philosophy.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    occurs also; occurs only