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Example sentences for "rare occasions"

  • It is not as gregarious as the lesser yellow-legs; it is most often seen singly or in small parties, but I have counted as many as 40 in a flock on rare occasions.

  • Yes; I always deal with men, except on rare occasions.

  • On rare occasions there is a slight discount given for ready cash.

  • In fact we never refused to give Pyrenees wool for the knitted goods when we had it, except on rare occasions, when we had very little of it, and had to give it out ourselves for work that we required.

  • On rare occasions, when in town, the financier dined out, limiting himself to a few houses.

  • Starling was sent to the wine-cellar to bring back a cobwebbed Madeira near a century old, brought out on rare occasions in the family.

  • Ordinarily they shed a light which sent people away from his window the happier without knowing why; but they had been known, on rare occasions, to flash on dishonesty and fraud like the lightnings of the Lord.

  • Everything the boy did was done by the heir of Styria, except on rare occasions when he and I stole away from the castle.

  • On rare occasions, in the deep privacy of her closet, mother-love would get the better of her and break through the crust of ceremony.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rare 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:
    being heated; calcium salts; deep breath; feeling sure; former occasions; great amount; made whole; poor place; power stations; rare books; rare good; rare instances; rare intervals; rare occasions; rare occurrence; rarely more; rarely seen; rarely used; rarely white; rushed upon; sacred poetry; somebody said; swing she came about; water must; well adapted; winter resident