Sentence examples for word occasion from inspiring English sources

Do not be put off by the word "occasion".

You don't have to show up at some – I want to characterize it without a four-letter word – occasion.

On Thursday Australia will celebrate – although celebrate is perhaps the wrong word – an occasion known as National Sorry Day.

But here I say this much: that for limpidity of speech, pleasure of language, spiciness of idiom, excellence of construction, beauty of style, suitability of word to occasion, manner of presentation, and narrative organization, Mīr Anīs has no equal.

Question: Should writers show off their erudition by deliberately using unfamiliar words on occasion?

Thus, to say all in a word, the occasions and services of these public works distributed plenty through every age and condition.

Sometimes oozing bitterness, sometimes dripping "woe" — another word that occasions a funny digression — Ms. Randolph is performing in a darker and more humane key than she did in the musical "Ghost," as the singing and dancing psychic.

While both players had harsh words on occasion for the French chair umpire Pascal Maria ("Grow a spine!" Roddick shouted after Maria declined to overrule a call in the third set), they frequently acknowledged each other's best shots.

Our last prime minister was so deficient in language – and so distrusting of it – he actually memorably ran out of words on occasion (when interviewed by Mark Riley over saying "shit happens" about the death of an Australian soldier).

The words "glittering occasion" and "legal aid" have probably never been uttered in the same sentence before, but there really is no other way to describe Tuesday night's Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year awards in central London.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.