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Example sentences for "under circumstances"

  • The wireless telegraph, under circumstances in which it operates successfully, annihilates distance so far as communication is concerned, though it does not annihilate distance so far as transportation is concerned.

  • Under circumstances so unpropitious, I had many misgivings, and the contemplation of our future prospect became a subject of painful anxiety.

  • It was my good fortune to witness the exhumation during the present year of examples of this remarkable class of oaken cists, under circumstances of peculiar interest.

  • Irish pot quernes have been frequently found at great depths in the bogs, under circumstances indicating a very remote antiquity, though they have scarcely yet fallen into total disuse in some of the remotest districts of the west.

  • Under circumstances so auspicious I could only expect the best possible results from my concert, and in my situation at that time its proceeds were a matter of vital importance to me.

  • Under circumstances in which she produces on him the impression of a heavenly vision, she makes her appearance before him.

  • Under circumstances of the same character, we were formerly able to overcome our misfortunes.

  • Upon the same principle we find that, under circumstances or in situations where the evaporation of a plant is provided for by a constant supply of moisture, the effects of gypsum cease to be apparent.

  • At the same time, he devoted himself zealously to the duties of his department, and did the country arduous service under circumstances of extreme difficulty.

  • I have been held up to the world as the perpetrator of a murder, under circumstances of greater aggravation, of more cruel and premeditated atrocity, than it ever before fell to the lot of man to have seen or heard of.

  • He then committed the fearful crime which was alleged against him, under circumstances of an appalling nature, which it would be impossible to repeat.

  • A short time before his murder, he had missed this relic, to which he attached great value, under circumstances of considerable mystery.

  • The Series of the Lives of the English Saints was projected at a later period, under circumstances which I shall have in the sequel to describe.

  • Under circumstances of more than ordinary difficulty, it has endeavored to maintain the Great Testimony.

  • His own apology and defence of his conduct, under circumstances of temptation which St. Anthony himself could have scarcely better resisted, will not be amiss.

  • When Earl Godwin breathed his last, under circumstances so memorable, his second son, Harold, succeeded to his earldom, and inherited his influence.

  • It had been an object steadily pursued, under circumstances of considerable discouragement, by a large number of liberal and patriotic individuals, for nearly a quarter of a century.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fugitives from; good behaviour; human will; line system; newspaper reporter; sometimes done; thirty pounds; under arrest; under count; under different; under favour; under fire; under foot; under her; under pain; under present; under some; under tail; under those; under various; under which; underground water; underparts white; understand that; understood afterwards; understood only