Occasion in example sentence

But it was the business of the bridegroom, from time immemorial, to furnish this indispensable to wedlock, and on no account would Miss Peyton do anything that transcended the usual reserve of the sex on this solemn occasion; certainly not until sufficient expiation for the offense had been made, by a due portion of trouble and disquiet.

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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.

It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.

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