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Example sentences for "circumstances would"

  • We lighted a fire in the cabin, dried our clothes, warmed our bodies, and otherwise made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would admit.

  • At night we were compelled to knock off work, so we lighted our camp-fires and made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would allow.

  • The seamen, as they hurried about the decks, shook the water in showers, like Newfoundland dogs from their shaggy coats; and in a short time we had things put as much to rights as circumstances would allow.

  • Such a variety of circumstances would not, almost miraculously, have combined to liberate and make us a nation for transient and unimportant purposes.

  • After the total failure of negotiation, the campaign was opened with as much vigor as a prudent attention to circumstances would permit.

  • They were to receive immediate certificates for the depreciation on their pay, and their arrears were to be settled as soon as circumstances would admit.

  • As I bent over him and seized him by the shoulders, I could see the whites of his eyes.

  • Two candles were burning upon the dressing-table; they were but recently lighted, and so intense was the stillness that I could distinctly hear the spluttering of one of the wicks, which was damp.

  • At 8 o’clock all hands were assembled on the quarter-deck for prayers, a solemnity which was gone through in as orderly a manner as circumstances would admit.

  • The guy-ropes of the cranes were also tightened, and every thing put in as complete a state of security as circumstances would admit.

  • Others in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, were likewise counseled to gather, as circumstances would permit.

  • Caldwell County Organized In pursuance of this action the Saints began to move from Clay County as soon as circumstances would permit, and located on Shoal Creek, in an uninhabited section in the north part of Ray County.

  • The exodus was carried on as rapidly as circumstances would permit.

  • Due to sickness they were detained many days, yet they pursued their course as rapidly as circumstances would permit.

  • The result of all this, as may be imagined, was highly beneficial to Rosetta, who, in consequence, fared as well as circumstances would permit.

  • Orders were now given by Colonel Logan, to have the bodies collected, and interred in a manner as decent as circumstances would permit.

  • Proceeding as fast as circumstances would permit, he eventually accomplished the journey of nineteen miles, meeting with hardly a solitary individual the whole of the way.

  • His plan was, simply, to raise on the hulk as much as was necessary to render her safe and convenient, and then to get as good and secure a deck over all as circumstances would allow.

  • Daggett was brought over to the house, on a handbarrow, for the second time, and made as comfortable as circumstances would allow.

  • This last arrangement was made seemingly without any hostile design, but rather in furtherance of a plan to pass as much time as circumstances would allow, on board the stranded vessel.

  • He took things without repining himself, and wished to make others as happy as circumstances would allow.

  • Get back we could not, so long as the wind held where it was, and he was disposed to make sail, and push the examination of the channel, as far as circumstances would allow.

  • We saw a great many sail, particularly as we approached the Straits of Dover, and kept as much aloof from all as circumstances would allow.

  • I have deferred this request as long as circumstances would permit, and am in hopes it will meet with no difficulty.

  • Failing to obtain admission, we burst open the door, and made ourselves as comfortable as circumstances would allow.

  • In the mean time, arms and accoutrements were looked to, and the escort cleaned and smartened up as well as circumstances would permit.

  • The lanterns were then lit, and the hurts of the people as carefully bound up as circumstances would allow.

  • He had rolled up his flushing coat to serve as a pillow, and prepared to enjoy as much comfort as circumstances would allow.

  • The wounded were as well cared for as circumstances would allow.

  • Everything was to be foreseen, provided for, and, as far as circumstances would permit, tested in advance.

  • What was now specially aimed at was to make the train as close an approach to an actual hospital on wheels as circumstances would permit.

  • So far as circumstances would permit, the French, as they retreated, either took their railway rolling stock with them or destroyed it, in order that it should not be used by the enemy.

  • Mr Dale was the first to come round; and as soon as he was so far recovered as to be able to speak he was stowed away in the men's sleeping berth forward, and made as comfortable as circumstances would permit.

  • The equipment of the boat was soon completed, notwithstanding the darkness of the night, at least as well as circumstances would allow.

  • In other houses the sufferers had been received, and were as comfortably accommodated as circumstances would admit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumstances would" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black snake; but this; circumstances might; circumstances permit; circumstances should; circumstances will; circumstances would; devout life; each pupil; even now; for the greater part; hath revealed; heart began; her lap; laid out; less dangerous; mark what; miserable existence; nearly three; peculiar species; poor aunt; rest assured; said vnto; shall turn; south wind; started again