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Example sentences for "this situation"

  • In this situation I found the variation to be 14 degrees 27' easterly, per azimuth.

  • In this situation a good vessel will ride out a very heavy gale of wind without shipping a drop of water, and without any further attention being requisite on the part of the crew.

  • It might have been desirable to place all our countrymen in this situation; but to give relief in the manner prescribed by this statute was rather the duty of private charity than of the public legislature.

  • In this situation a reverse might be ruinous to Buonaparte: he therefore concluded peace.

  • In this situation, he is impelled by humanity, and thinks himself justified, by established principles and precedents of state and war, to spare the lives of brave men upon honourable terms.

  • Here the royalist troops were shut up by the forces of Hoche; and while in this situation an open rapture took place between the emigrants and Chouans.

  • I was still in this situation of mind when Mr. Falkland sent for me.

  • One day, while I continued in this situation, a circumstance occurred which involuntarily attracted my attention.

  • What could exceed the horrors of this situation?

  • In this situation Mr. Tyrrel kicked his prostrate enemy, and stooped apparently with the intention of dragging him along the floor.

  • There was no reason to suppose that this sound was connected with the detection of me in this situation; yet I acted as if this reason existed, and made haste to pass the door and gain the second flight of steps.

  • Nay," said I, "this situation is unsuitable to a sick man.

  • I threw myself on a chair and resigned myself to those thoughts which would naturally arise in this situation.

  • No," said I, "I am not sick; a violent blow reduced me to this situation.

  • Relieved from my new peril by this situation, I bent an attentive ear through the opening, with a view to ascertain if the house had been entered or if the outer door was still beset, but could hear nothing.

  • Do not, however, imagine that in this situation my passions left me as undisturbed as I was with Theresa and mamma.

  • In this situation, justness of expression and presence of mind were peculiarly necessary in answering.

  • This situation is indescribable, few men can even form any conception of it, because, in general, they have prevented that plenitude of life, at once tormenting and delicious.

  • In this situation, Mr. Holwell, whom the terrible example of the Black Hole at Calcutta had not cured of ambition, thought an hour was not to be lost in accomplishing a revolution and selling the reigning Nabob.

  • Things were in this situation, when the surgeon put a letter from the countess into his hand.

  • He scarcely had stood a minute in this situation, revolving whether he should follow his friend into the house or wait until he came out again, when a gentleman begged him to make way for a party of ladies that were entering.

  • To-day the question is this: Are we to make the best of this situation, which we cannot alter?

  • He was kept in this situation four or five days.

  • In this situation, I see a great deal of the property of the people of Virginia in jeopardy, and their peace and tranquillity gone away.

  • In this situation he was fired upon with a blunderbuss loaded heavily with ball and grape shot.

  • In this situation we had seventy-three fathoms water, over a muddy bottom, and about a league farther off found ninety fathoms.

  • While in this situation, I ordered all the boats to be hoisted out to tow the ships in.

  • In this situation we tacked, and sounded; but a line of a hundred and sixty fathoms did not reach the ground.

  • In this situation then an important question naturally arises.

  • In this situation I cannot help picturing to myself the surprise and the joy, that would be in a moment lighted up in the countenance of your friend.

  • We have no need to call upon the historian, the sociologist nor the statistician for our knowledge of this situation.

  • While it is true that he suffers many evils as the consequence of this situation, she suffers vastly more.

  • This situation implies in turn a number of conditions.

  • In this situation of suspense and anxiety we still remained until the evening of the 8th, when a breeze at length springing up from the southward began to open out the ice from the point near which we lay.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this 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:
    this affair; this age; this area; this branch; this county; this disease; this island; this meeting; this minute; this mountain; this nature; this neighbourhood; this plan; this question; this same; this school; this second; this society; this sort; this statement; this system; this they; this time; this town; this very; this wonderful