have occasion to
Example Sentences
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As an older gentleman, I too have occasion to need a restroom more often than most.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023
PhDD: Person who might have occasion to say, “Excuse me, my brain is up here.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2019
We don’t often have occasion to mention art exhibitions here, but a new show at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art deserves special recognition.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2018
Since these precedents are accepted, states and citizens do not file, and lower court judges do have occasion to hear, cases challenging them, thereby placing them on the superprecedent list.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2018
“How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of a year! Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
