How to Use occasion in a Sentence

occasion

1 of 2 noun
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  • He took the occasion to make an announcement.
  • The boys never had occasion to meet each other.
  • They marked the occasion with their families.
  • We had occasion to watch her perform last summer.
  • She never found an occasion to suggest her ideas.
  • She wrote a song especially for the occasion.
  • Roses are the perfect flower for any occasion.
  • On the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, they took a vacation to Paris.
  • Turner says the first time the crew stepped on stage at the Bowl marked a special occasion.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • In the photo, Archie is behind the wheel, with Anstead leaning in to snap a selfie of the occasion.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The story is unfurling in the open and the local bookstore wants to mark the occasion.
    — Hazlitt, 14 June 2023
  • On that occasion, the pop singer dueted with Bono and played piano.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The Mean Girls star even baked from scratch a dog-friendly birthday cake to mark the special occasion.
    — Celeste McCauley, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Long-Sleeve Black Dress A little black dress goes a long way and can be dressed up or down for just about any occasion.
    — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Get ready to switch up your look in no time with these cute and easy hairstyles for every occasion.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 18 July 2023
  • On this occasion, there are five of them, although soon enough they are whittled down to one.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Of companies that did not want to talk to me regardless of the occasion.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Even the most ardent heels wearer will love these kicks, which can be dressed up for just about any occasion.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Furphy rose to the occasion with 17 points, eight rebounds, and a team-leading plus-minus of plus-17.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Teigen doubled down on Zuhair Murad gowns for the occasion.
    — Celeste McCauley, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For dressier occasions, the bicorne hat was designed to be carried under the arms like a purse and didn’t touch the wearer’s head at all.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Read on to find our favorite wool socks for every occasion.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The tool also comes in silver, gold, and black — a finish for every occasion.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • For the occasion, Clooney relied on her go-to closet staple—with a golden twist.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • Pulled hot off the runway for the occasion, the dress comes from the French fashion label's spring-summer 2024 ready-to-wear collection.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 11 Mar. 2024
  • This tiered maxi dress can be worn for a range of occasions, from fall weddings to holidays to outings with friends.
    — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2023
  • For the occasion, Meghan got a slight change to her hair color from celebrity hair colorist Kadi Lee.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Aguilar Mendez is thrown to the ground, held in a chokehold, pinned down by officers, and tased on multiple occasions.
    — Davi Merchan, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Grainge also posted a photo from the occasion, in which the twosome are kissing.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Our music was suitable for the occasion and well given.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
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occasion

2 of 2 verb
  • The horoscope question in the poll was occasioned by the death of Don Larsen.
    — The Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The fifth shot always occasioned the strangest of the reactions.
    — Arna Bontemps Hemenway, The Atlantic, 19 July 2019
  • Nor is the joy occasioned only by a Labour loss worse than at any other point since 1935.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • And pulled it off more smoothly, without the staging longueurs occasioned by the rough text and the stop-and-go direction?
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But the economic boom of the 1950s occasioned a new freedom in Italian art.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Those three things could occasion hours of discussion — and many books.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Rosen was traded to the Dolphins a few days later, occasioning many jokes about Jews and South Beach.
    — Rich Cohen, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The Crimson Tide is on an historic run of championships, but that doesn't mean that a team can occasion jump up and crash the party.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 3 June 2017
  • Every visit to a friend's house, the market or workplace occasioned a walk.
    — Dan Buettner, CNN, 3 Dec. 2019
  • But the loss in Ohio does occasion a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges the pro-life movement faces now and what will likely be a long battle ahead.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The casting of Noma Dumezweni, a black actress, to play Hermione occasioned some discussion in Britain.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2018
  • The existence of Ross’s book and others like it — and the brutal events that occasion them — suggest the attainment of that goal is still more than 20 years away.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • Agis falls in love with Léonide right through her boy disguise, which occasions a rather awkward embrace.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • The last two weeks-plus of baseball has occasioned two major questions: Will the Indians ever lose again, and will the Dodgers ever win?
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The rule changes occasion a massive change in the operation of the Wisconsin Court system.
    — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But her observations of him occasion some of the novel’s sharpest insights.
    — Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • And in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign occasioned a vast wave of celebrity content.
    — New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The next step is a Senate floor vote, which may occasion Democrats’ first official challenge to the Senate filibuster.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • But the presidency has also occasioned a whole new set of disputes.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
  • Too bad if the 911 calls were occasioned by domestic violence or, in one case Desmond recounts, a child’s asthma attack.
    — Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2016
  • Liszt was hailed in his lifetime as the demigod of the piano, the virtuoso idol who occasioned mass fainting spells, and in the hundred and thirty-seven years since his death no one has challenged his preëminence.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Whatever Greene or Gosar is saying or doing at the moment doesn't occasion much chatter in their districts.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But the war has also occasioned one of the most intense disinformation campaigns.
    — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2019
  • But the idea of a spontaneous snap occasioned by losses is hard to reconcile with the extensive preparation that the massacre required.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The ex-royal couple have enough wit to understand that their own hardships don’t occasion many tears outside their lachrymose celebrity friends.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • This has given rise to the high premiums on cash and also occasioned heavy discounts for cash purchases in retail outlets.
    — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz Africa, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The people who make laws like this think, one supposes, that the sonogram image, a staticky moon landing in monochrome, might occasion a last-ditch upheaval in the pregnant woman’s heart.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
  • It was occasioned by Kennedy’s having reached an agreement on the limited nuclear-test-ban treaty with the Soviets, on July 25th.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • Driver charged, set to appear in court As of Monday morning, police had charged him with ten counts of dangerous driving occasioning death.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
  • The book is unlikely to occasion surprise for readers of Murray’s other books, including The Madness ...
    — Peter Wood, National Review, 12 May 2022

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