12 example sentences using occasion.
Occasion used in a sentence
Occasion in a sentence as a noun
Had a 34" stool that helped on occasion.
On at least one occasion, Isaacson calls an opinion a lie.
I am NOT an Apple fanboy, but in this occasion I would like to cite the iPhone's sales as a good example.
On 42 of these occasions it has done so to prevent Israel's treatment of the Palestinians being censured.
On the last occasion, 130 nations supported the resolution but Barack Obama spiked it.
Our priority should always be the latter, even though we are part of the present world, and occasionally we find the present needs us.
Occasion in a sentence as a verb
We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon.
We can all succumb to temptations to do wrong on this or that occasion but it takes someone really loathsome to do what Best Buy's executives did here.
Both of them bought iPhones so that they could run the business from the road, because the owner of a small gardening firm still needs to use scissors on occasion.
Naturally, on any occasion when it is actually possible to check a journalistic report against reality, the journalist will turn out to be lying.
So... it's perfectly ok to publish tons of linkbaits about 'how steve jobs changed my life' even if they are vague and repetitive boring opinions, but nobody can state his negative views on this occasion.
I have occasion to discuss human population genetics with psychologists who study behavior genetics, and when population genetics issues come up in those discussions, some of the new discoveries are surprising even to them. It's hard for reporters, us, and even the working researchers to keep up with the new findings in human population genetics.
Occasion definitions
an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
See also: juncture
a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
give occasion to