Sentence examples for occasion use from inspiring English sources

"I hear frequent reports that the police use excessive force, on occasion use the derogatory N-word while on duty and plant drugs on suspects.

Although he has now acquired a computer and may on occasion use it, he prefers to do his anagrams with an old Scrabble set.

An ape may on occasion use a stick to beat bananas from a tree, but a man can fashion the stick into a cutting tool and remove a whole bunch of bananas.

Food television executive Melanie Jappy lamented: "Here's a thought: how about going to good established restaurants once a week rather than chasing the new ones – then they might not close". Guardian restaurant critic Marina O'Loughlin recited her mantra minted for just such an occasion: "Use 'em or lose 'em".

Bower continued to write for Hollywood, and would on occasion use her experiences working within the studio system as the source material for her novels, as in Jean of the Lazy A (1915), The Heritage of the Sioux (1915), The Phantom Herd (1915), and The Quirt (1920).

They meet periodically to swap parts, technical information and stories, participate in parades and, on occasion, use their cars to raise money for charity.

He returned to Marvel, on one occasion using the pen name Reg Everbest, and even to scripting Howard again.

Long before Orbán was battling Soros, he was fighting the Russians, on occasion using Soros money to do so.

We controlled unrest through simple methods - such as, on occasion, using the RAF to bomb rebellious tribesmen.

Many people captured the occasion using their mobile devices and cameras.

Cities globally have, on occasion, used short-term equipment rentals to fill in a special need, such as hosting the Olympics.