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"Circumstance" in a Sentence (25 examples)
They are in comfortable circumstance.
She takes every circumstance into account.
A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.
But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed.
But there was one curious circumstance.
What would you do in this circumstance?
No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit.
This is kind of a special circumstance.
The new bishop was installed with much pomp and circumstance.
Tom was an innocent victim of circumstance.
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The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.
She went missing in somewhat spooky circumstances.
A victim of circumstance.
She performed well under/in/given the circumstances.
The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened.
The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]
I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History.
Then another circumstance happened, which made a lasting impression on my memory, though I was but a small child.
Right, you are in the right, and therefore / I holde it meet without more circumſtance at all, / Wee ſhake hands and part; […]
But he (as louing his owne pride, and purpoſes) / Euades them, with a bumbaſt Circumſtance, / Horribly ſtufft with Epithites of warre,
Old Ger. You put vs to a needeleſſe labour ſir, / To runne and winde about for circumſtance, / When the plaine word, I thanke you, would have ſeru'd.
She was born into comfortable circumstances.
When men are eaſy in their circumſtances, they are naturally enemies to innovations: […]
Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.
While also taxing Ferrein with the same motives, Diderot's account of his doings is much more circumstanced than La Mettrie's, and also much more amusing, thanks to the interpolation of the «bijoux» motif.
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