Used in a Sentence

circumstances

How to use circumstances in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for circumstances.

Editorial note

This, combined with your unique physiology and work circumstances, will dictate how many hours you should work.

Examples8
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of circumstances gathered in one view.

noun

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

noun

a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for circumstances.

noun

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

noun

a person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"

Example sentences

1

This, combined with your unique physiology and work circumstances, will dictate how many hours you should work.

2

Hardship and privation are everywhere in many large pockets of the world and people live life doing many things they wouldn't do if they had different circumstances.

3

I no longer have to legally disclose it, but when I did I always did so with a letter explaining some of the circumstances and how deeply it had affected my life.

4

The most I've been able to reach in other circumstances is about 18 GB/s by doing multiple streams with interleaved reads, which allows the processor to take better advantage of open RAM banks.

5

How, when, and to what extent they take any money out along the way is a completely legitimate issue to be fought for by founders and resisted by investors as circumstances dictate.

6

That is a legitimate question for debate and it should be cast as a policy debate, not as a perverse prying into the details of a particular company whose circumstances we do not really know.

7

It can take months of experience to figure out "oh, this API is failing to correlate chargebacks in these specific circumstances, but I can work around the issue like this" or to learn what all the different kinds of error messages that a user can end up seeing so you can provide support.

8

Someone's finally seen what Robert Heinlein wrote in Life-Line and essentially just paraphrased it:> There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use circumstances in a sentence?

This, combined with your unique physiology and work circumstances, will dictate how many hours you should work.

What does circumstances mean?

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"

What part of speech is circumstances?

circumstances is commonly used as noun.