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898 examples of Occasion in a sentence

And on one occasion, I think I spoke in Geneva and there was a gentleman who was interviewing me on something like this, and I said, "We are looking at floating islands," and he thought it was funny, but somebody said, "No, this is not funny.
What do you think, on such an occasion?
I figured I would rise to the occasion, which, unsurprisingly, was not the best strategy.
On the rare occasion that I share with a new acquaintance that I study sex, if they don't end the conversation right then, they're usually pretty intrigued.
But on that occasion, I chose to draw upon the negative ones.
All of us wore pink boas for the occasion, and Crystal, as you can see, queen for a day, wore a sparkly tiara.
We need middle managers and senior leaders to work together to define a new way of leading and develop each other to rise to the occasion.
And so Americans rose to the occasion and what we did was we reformed surveillance law.
But on this particular occasion, it was very, very clear that as horny as Suki was, Jasmine was having none of it.
It can be challenging, it can be labor-intensive, sometimes costly ... and on occasion, it can be somewhat patronizing for scientists to swoop in and tell a family what they need to change in order for their child to succeed.
But we might find, at least on occasion, it's a beautiful place to visit.
Yet despite this joyous occasion, Xu Xian was uneasy.
It gave us an occasion for intimacy, to see beyond our points of view.
And their experiments with kites led to this momentous occasion, where we powered up and took off for the first-ever 12-second human flight.
But I would go in on occasion.
And the irony of it is, that this is one occasion of a paradigm collapse where we didn't have to wait for a new paradigm to come up.
She took the occasion to argue that all formerly enslaved people should be granted land by the government.
I hope that we have the wisdom to let the angels of our better nature rise to the occasion and do what needs to be done.
So on one occasion, when his granddaughters were visiting them, he said, "And who are these handsome young men with you?" (Laughter) And they said, "Alas, Grandpapa, there are no handsome young men."
On one occasion, he saw a man in a bathrobe smoking a pipe, and realized it was himself.
On one occasion, she said she saw a man in a striped shirt in a restaurant.
Let me explain a point at which we did not rise to the occasion.
And this immediately cheers him up, as his courage is stimulated to rise to the occasion.
It's the occasion for a whole other talk.
She wasn't about to make up for this occasion.
She was, of course, done up for the occasion, but this was a woman in great physical distress.
And this is why I'm telling you this: Civil society rose to the occasion.
On another occasion, a gay couple came in with their son, and it was undeniable to me that they loved their son in the same profound ways that I loved mine.
At this point I think we have a little impressionistic film that was made especially for this occasion.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion."
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