Words similar to occasion

Example sentences for: occasion

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

Austria seized the occasion to add the Veneto to its Lombardy territories.
The old man would have been content to allow the occasion of his centenary to pass unremarked, but his family had other ideas.
...I heard this many years ago on at least one other occasion from a very knowledgeable South African friend who explained that he could not cite a reference but regarded it as common knowledge.
(As opposed to the voyeuristic Rosetta , where the camera pants after the poor heroine, cornering her like a pig in a pen and treating her vulnerability as a turn-on--an occasion for a kind of art-house porn.)
This same witness recalled seeing Hazmi and Mihdhar in the guest room on the second floor of the mosque and, on one occasion, leaving the room just after Aulaqi, at the conclusion of a meeting.