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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:

He has become our national icon of broadcasting probity, and they knew that he would bring the sort of solemnity to the occasion that would minimize the risk of things getting interesting.
And environmentalists have on occasion attacked religion for promoting human domination over the natural world.
Dante's Peak gives movie critics an occasion to reaffirm a movie-critic's article of faith: the efficacy of generic formulas and special effects, trite though they may be.
To commemorate the occasion, the foundation also has sponsored a gushing account of its first quarter-century, The Power of Ideas , by Lee Edwards.
Prudie is not laughing, she is merely smiling with recognition, having had to consider the same question on occasion.