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Example sentences for: occasion

How can you use “occasion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But the occasion is one for mourning a separation, not for celebrating a connection.
His blockmate confesses to robbery: Wachtler takes the occasion to celebrate the Miranda warning.
On one occasion I asked her to translate a document into Vietnamese describing the modus operandi of the Soviet Illegals program.
At a rare press conference--reported by Asahi Shimbun of Tokyo Friday--to mark the 10 th anniversary of his accession to the throne of Japan, Emperor Akihito said it weighed on his conscience that the nation should be celebrating the occasion "under the present stringent economic circumstances."
The last British royal wedding of the millennium--Saturday's marriage of Queen Elizabeth's youngest son Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones--was the occasion for the recently installed poet laureate's first official ode.