CIRCUMSTANCE in a Sentence

Learn CIRCUMSTANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
265 example sentences for CIRCUMSTANCE, such as:
1. The circumstances forced me to accept.
2. But there was one curious circumstance.
3. Under normal circumstances, I would say 'yes'.
4. The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
5. Under no circumstances can we agree to such a principle.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CIRCUMSTANCE
circumstance
 n.  information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
 n.  the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But there was one curious circumstance.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
2  In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
3  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
4  It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  This circumstance induced Gurth to believe both that the gang was strong in numbers, and that they kept regular guards around their place of rendezvous.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  United with that fatal circumstance, the body of proof was too weighty for Rebecca's youth, though combined with the most exquisite beauty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  After all, he was her husband: Wragby was her home: circumstance had done it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
11  The circumstance was precisely as this lady has represented it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  That circumstance would by no means tempt me," he replied, "for I should be sorry to make the character ridiculous by bad acting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  She had read and read the scene again with many painful, many wondering emotions, and looked forward to their representation of it as a circumstance almost too interesting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  Maria joined them with the same intent, just then the stoutest of the three; for the very circumstance which had driven Julia away was to her the sweetest support.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  To Fanny herself it appeared a very simple and natural circumstance.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1  Her heart is broken, but then a change in circumstance forces them to be together every day.
2  I do not think it is the role of councilors to indulge in pomp and circumstance: we have been elected to do, not to show.
3  It would be a very remarkable circumstance if the balance due from any debtor bank should be exactly the same as the balance due to some creditor bank.
4  The other reason to automate is to get people out of the dangerous circumstance.
5  Any unexpected circumstance that arises may catalyze a sudden escalation of violence.
6  The circumstances forced me to accept.
7  The act was barely justified by the circumstances.
8  Under no circumstances can we agree to such a principle.
9  The company reserves the right to cancel this agreement in certain circumstances.
10  The school will only allow this in special circumstances.
11  Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the freedom to choose his attitude in any given set of circumstances.
12  Various circumstances cooperated to make him a great artist.
13  Under normal circumstances, I would say 'yes'.
14  Environmental impact reports are required under many circumstances by federal and state law.
15  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them.