Example sentences for: occasioned

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

  • Geraldine Ferraro's resignation as co-host of Crossfire , to run for the Senate from New York, has occasioned the usual pokes at CNN's nightly political interview-cum-debate program.

  • The smarter mouse stories are occasioned by a write-up of the research coming out in Nature today.

  • What's occasioned the most notice, fittingly enough, was Greenspan's argument that central bankers needed to pay attention to asset prices--like, oh, the stock market--in addition to the prices of normal goods and services if the bankers want to have a handle on what may drive inflation in the future.

  • These thoughts were occasioned by what I regard as without question the two most enthralling performances of the decade--and I hasten to temper such a superlative with a dose of irony.

  • Kincaid's memoir of her impoverished childhood in Antigua, occasioned by the death of her half-brother from AIDS.


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