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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:

for the writing as well as for the science," says Mark Ridley in the New York Times Book Review . But some also use the occasion to take evolutionary psychology to task: "[I]t wants to explain too much, too easily" (Jim Holt, the Wall Street Journal ).
The occasion not being a seminar at the Kennedy School, both candidates wisely ignored him.
Dipping back to impeachment, here's a classic exchange between the "poised" Monica and House Manager Edward Bryant: Bryant, attempting delicacy, alludes to "the first so-called salacious occasion."
On two occasions these were said just to me, and on one occasion they were said in front of others.
Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.