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Example sentences for "several occasions"

  • The barbarous custom of punishment by torture was on several occasions condemned by the Church.

  • The Frank kings on several occasions evinced a desire that communications favourable to trade should be re-established in their dominions.

  • On several occasions we chanced to meet Louis Philippe dashing by in an open barouche.

  • I heard Père Hyacinthe preach, and met his American wife on several occasions.

  • About twelve years later I did get started, and could that passer-by have seen me on any one of several occasions, he would have had the satisfaction of knowing that his was a prophetic eye.

  • These strips I would weave into a crude Rip Van Winkle kind of suit; and so intricate was the warp and woof that on several occasions an attendant had to cut me out of these sartorial improvisations.

  • On several occasions I concocted plans to escape, and not only that, but also to liberate others.

  • I saw bullets in the chest on several occasions, also in the abdomen, pelvis, the neighbourhood of joints, and in the limbs.

  • In the case of the ulna, pure perforation of the olecranon process, without obvious evidence of implication of the elbow, was seen on several occasions.

  • Wounds of the testicles I saw on several occasions.

  • The Russians were much touched by their misfortunes, and consented on several occasions to bestow provisions upon them, which prevented the Dutch sailors from dying of hunger.

  • Thus, on several occasions, junks were seized upon, and their crews forced by their Spanish captors to pay large ransoms.

  • We will pause here for a short time, although the various places may have already been visited on several occasions, because for the first time the banner of France floats over the shores of the New World.

  • On several occasions a number of skinks were put in the terrarium and their temperatures taken at brief intervals.

  • The shells are tough and elastic to the extent that even when eggs being handled were accidentally dropped on the floor on several occasions, no damage to them resulted.

  • Earthworms, offered on several occasions, were not eaten.

  • On several occasions groups of hatchlings were seen on logs within which they probably had hatched.

  • Nevertheless, on several occasions he exhibited the highest executive qualities.

  • It is my good fortune to have been either a spectator or a participant on several occasions.

  • I was privileged to meet Colonel Ingersoll many times, and on several occasions to be a speaker on the same platform.

  • Beaufort was a man of considerable wealth, and on several occasions he lent large sums of money to the king.

  • The building had originally a military purpose, and it appears as a fortress on several occasions in French history.

  • Philip the Good, on several occasions, attempted to arrest the decadence of Ypres caused by the development of the English cloth industry.

  • Nevertheless, there were manifestations of turbulence amongst the younger men on several occasions, and they certainly meditated, even though, for particular reasons, they refrained from any act of violence.

  • On several occasions we might have shot them, but they were useless, and would have encumbered us much.

  • He had, indeed, kept pace with us all the way from the settlement in his boat, and supplied us with wild fowl on several occasions.

  • This singular bird is an inhabitant of the distant interior, and was seen on several occasions, but invariably near hills.

  • When the baby voles were about a week old, a large brown rat, that on several occasions in the previous year had annoyed the youthful Brighteye, returned to the pool.

  • On several occasions, at dusk, Brighteye, like Lutra the otter, had seen a trout splashing and twisting convulsively in terror and pain.

  • On several occasions, the vixen led forth her cubs long before the badgers came in view, and while the light yet lingered on the crests of the neighbouring hills.

  • Not only did the dried fish show us the right way on several occasions, but they also came in very useful on the next journey, when we returned with starving dogs.

  • Unfortunately we did not succeed in getting any astronomical observation on this trip, as the theodolite we had brought with us went wrong, but later observations on several occasions gave 79° 59' S.

  • Next day, March 7, we had the same experience that Shackleton mentions on several occasions.

  • Ever since that time Yakoob Beg seems to have maintained some influence in Badakshan, and to have been inclined on several occasions to compete with Shere Ali of Afghanistan for the possession of that province.

  • Now it has been Yarkand, now Kashgar, and yet again, on several occasions, Aksu.

  • The Chinese were on several occasions, as we have seen, threatened in Eastern Turkestan by the pretensions of the Khojas, and the secret or open machinations of Khokand.

  • It is quite certain that he would not have tolerated that further advance along the Pamir, which Yakoob Beg seemed on several occasions inclined to make.

  • He took a more active part in soliciting contributions for evangelizing benighted countries, and he consented on several occasions to deliver an address on "Success in Life" to struggling young men of Benham and the surrounding towns.

  • Selma had heard her husband refer to Horace Elton on several occasions in terms of respectful and somewhat mysterious consideration.

  • She managed adroitly on several occasions to let people know who they were, and it pleased her to observe the conductor indicating to passengers in the common cars that they were Congressman Lyons and his wife on their honeymoon.

  • Her own question had been put on several occasions, both in the company of the tempter and in the privacy of the domestic hearth, and both in the gayly suggestive and the pensively argumentative key.

  • Both "The Tory Catch" and "A Letter to a Friend" are reprinted here from Poems on Several Occasions.

  • In its variety and themes, Poems on Several Occasions resembles Oldham's Works, which was published twice in 1684.

  • The young man of twenty four who went off to join Monmouth's forces had already published, in 1685, Poems on Several Occasions.

  • I am obligated to The Houghton Library for Poems on Several Occasions and The Earth-quake of Jamaica, to Yale University Library for The Foreigners, and to the British Museum for A Pindarick Ode, in the Praise of Folly and Knavery.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several occasions" 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:
    earth life; economic development; good reader; must own; other parts; poultry house; practical science; several cases; several cities; several colours; several distinct; several hundred; several important; several inches; several instances; several letters; several months; several other; several others; several pieces; several towns; several varieties; several works; several writers; something done; worth quoting