VICISSITUDE in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for VICISSITUDE, such as:
1. And hence the vicissitudes in human affairs.
2. Strange vicissitudes have met these whilom masters.
3. The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her.
4. So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
5. I regarded myself as a refuge, for her, from the dangers and vicissitudes of life.
2. Strange vicissitudes have met these whilom masters.
3. The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her.
4. So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
5. I regarded myself as a refuge, for her, from the dangers and vicissitudes of life.
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Meanings and Examples of VICISSITUDE
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vicissitude
n. change, especially in one's life or fortunes; regular change or succession of one thing to another; alternation
Classic Sentence:
1 So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
2 Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
3 For during the violence of the gale, he had only steered according to its vicissitudes.
4 Not long after this, Jurgis, wearying of the risks and vicissitudes of miscellaneous crime, was moved to give up the career for that of a politician.
5 I regarded myself as a refuge, for her, from the dangers and vicissitudes of life.
6 In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes.
7 A force composed of earth and heaven results from humanity and governs it; this force is a worker of miracles; marvellous issues are no more difficult to it than extraordinary vicissitudes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
8 On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming.
9 And hence the vicissitudes in human affairs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXVII.
10 Strange vicissitudes have met these whilom masters.
11 The vicissitudes of the human mind had not yet been exhausted by her.
Example Sentence:
1 Humbled by life's vicissitude, the last emperor of China worked as a lowly gardener in the palace over which he had once ruled.