circumstance

Example Sentences

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Despite their unusual travel circumstances, wildlife officials wrote in court records that the birds are “doing well.”

From Los Angeles Times

Todd Blanche said he did not want to "overstate" the move, calling it "a standard investigation by the FBI when there are circumstances like what we saw".

From BBC

“It was quite a display of abuse and anger, for all to see, crazed and out of control. The ICE Officer was calm and cool, not an easy thing to be under those circumstances!”

From Salon

The reader doesn’t discover much about how Mansfield’s work was shaped by changing personal circumstances, from hectic bohemia to a series of continental spas, and learns too little about Mansfield’s achievements as a literary provocateur.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the past months have shown that circumstance can be the thief of choice.

From Literature