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Example sentences for "our situation"

  • It is indeed terrible, and the helplessness of our situation adds to its misery.

  • Napoleon asked whether, in the complicated difficulties of our situation, it would be more advisable to negotiate for peace or to prepare for a new war.

  • Such was the horror of our situation that if, on the one hand, we could not resolve to abandon them, it was at the same time impossible to aid them.

  • I only mention it to afford some idea of our situation at Hamburg, surrounded, as we then were, by Swedish, English, and Russian troops.

  • The most cautious prudence will justify us in confiding to the wisdom of his Ministers the portrait of our situation.

  • But admitting that negotiations were opened, and in a train of effect, what then would be our situation?

  • If I had been so fully apprized of our situation as I now am, perhaps I might have suffered everything to be ruined, rather than have risked my bills.

  • What I have said will, I am confident, put your mind into the train of reflections, which arise out of our situation, and you will draw the proper conclusions and make a proper appreciation of them.

  • I wish you to be fully possessed of our situation, and that you may convey a clear idea of it to the Court of Versailles.

  • You will be guarded on this head, and represent our conduct as founded solely on the necessity of our situation.

  • I have sent Commodore Nicholson express, who can inform you of our situation.

  • Visit the Duchess of Gordon, who tells me that she supposes I give Paine his information about America, and speaks very slightly of our situation, as being engaged in a civil war with the Indians.

  • But he feels not as we feel; he is not in our situation, and that alone without any other explanation is enough.

  • Irvine, who commands at present our advanced troops, contain a just Representation of our situation.

  • At this period we avoided as much as possible conversing upon the hopelessness of our situation, and generally endeavoured to lead the conversation towards our future prospects in life.

  • I had in view, in this arrangement, the further object of enabling Mr. Back to get across the lake with two of these men, to convey the earliest possible account of our situation to the Indians.

  • I have no doubt the mind of Andrews was weighed down and perplexed by the uncertainty of our situation.

  • We had been so much taken up with these creatures that we had given scarce a thought to our situation; but now, casting my eyes towards the summit of the mountain, I saw with great delight that the cloud of steam was altogether gone.

  • I went back, and seeing both Mr. Lummis and the captain still lying motionless on the deck, I was well-nigh overcome with the horror of our situation, and sat me down on a coil of rope and buried my face in my hands.

  • And a thing that happened the same night showed to us that if we were to make the best of our situation, and have any comfort in our solitary life, we must take some measures for our shelter.

  • This is a tremendous question if tested only by policy, and so extraordinary in our situation that it is equally difficult to decide it on the ground of justice, the only one by which I wish the United States to be governed.

  • If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursum corda!

  • We shall never be strong or artful enough to parry, or to put by, the irresistible demands of our situation.

  • But there we are; there we are placed by the Sovereign Disposer; and we must do the best we can in our situation.

  • We must follow the nature of our affairs, and conform ourselves to our situation.

  • No change in our situation; but a discovery came to complicate matters and make them worse.

  • But without stopping to look up new arguments I simply took up our situation such as it was.

  • Let us therefore assume this last hypothesis as the most suitable to our situation, and calculate.

  • At sunset, the anchor was dropped in 36 fathoms, near to our situation on the 6th at noon; the dry reefs bearing from S.

  • To add to the disagreeableness of our situation, the gnats and mosquitoes appeared in swarms to torment us.

  • At first the rain pattered gently on the leaves overhead, and we congratulated ourselves on the snugness of our situation.

  • With daylight, if he continued ill and could not move, our situation would be little improved.

  • In fine, our misery became so perfect that we both broke out into loud and sarcastic laughter over the absurdity of our situation.

  • There is a tremendous impression of isolation and lonesomeness in our situation.

  • The novelty of our situation, long proved with me an effectual antidote to fatigue and drowsiness, and I lay, looking up at the moon glimmering through the foliage of the trees, an hour after the rest seemed to be asleep.

  • Browne, though quite composed and self-possessed, had, from the moment when he discovered that we were out of sight of land, taken the most serious view of our situation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our situation" 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:
    look very; matters little; original nature; our army; our author; our country; our enemies; our eyes; our faith; our friends; our front; our king; our language; our line; our love; our minds; our modern; our new; our own little star; our party; our people; our return; our said lord the; our senses; our ship; our work