Sentence examples for terrible occasion from inspiring English sources

Silvia's authority is a matter of brute force: she pummels Velvet for sneaking out of the house at night, for taking bread before dinner is served, for talking back, or, on one terrible occasion, for gazing in open pleasure at musicians on a subway platform, punishing her for exactly the quality that Ginger most prizes: "You stupid girl, you give everything away!

Still terrible on occasion and the snow that troubled the animals of Farthing Wood is now thoroughly enjoyed by our two boys (who 'save' their crusts for the cold birds and watch mummy sliding outside to feed them).

Patrick is brazen, splendidly self-deluded, has a terrible sense of occasion and really doesn't get it at all.

Stolley's editorial style has taken what could have been a formulaic downscale tabloid book, and instead made it a chronicle of our times -- with the faces and stories that have driven popular culture, and on occasion, terrible tragedies as well.

His father died when the actor was 11, an accident that sounds only more terrible on the occasions that Ejiofor, over the years, has agreed to discuss it.

Shadowed by fear — a three-year-old I used to know, now teen-age, still knows how to gnash his terrible teeth when the occasion calls for it — these worlds also pointed to a shaded path towards survival.

While Beijing made strenuous efforts to clean up its air in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics, the city still suffers from terrible smog, so bad on occasion that it forces the airport to shut and envelops everything in a thick, choking haze.