How to use "occasion" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "occasion" in popular movie and book plots

  • That night another occasion arises, this time a joyous one—a wedding.  - The Minister's Black Veil
  • Yvan, however, finds himself at a loss to recount a recent occasion where he did feel genuinely happy.  - Art (play)
  • Ulysses short-circuits and crashes into the swimming pool, turning the occasion into a public relations disaster.  - Making Mr. Right
  • "Towards dawn, however, the Princess had occasion to make the Sign of the Cross".  - The Leopard
  • Kresh uses the occasion to finger the true culprit in the assault on Leving, who turns out to have been Ariel, Tonya Welton's personal robot.  - Isaac Asimov's Caliban
  • Their CIA case officer on that occasion was Wicks.  - Three Days of the Condor
  • On another occasion when Annie is absent, Paul escapes his room again and steals a knife from her kitchen, intending to kill her.  - Misery (novel)
  • The annual car race provides the occasion for Titta to daydream of winning the grand prize, Gradisca.  - Amarcord
  • Monica represents a dynamic anarchist society, while Bregna embodies a police state—referred to on one occasion as a republic by Goodchild.  - Æon Flux
  • The narrative references Munro Leaf's Ferdinand the Bull, as the bull does not care to participate in the occasion for much of the event.  - Under the Volcano
  • On another occasion he sneaks out during the symphony, then comes back wearing golf socks, claiming his kids must have mixed his stuff up.  - A Touch of Class (film)
  • Queen Elizabeth I declares that she will judge the matter when the occasion arises.  - Shakespeare in Love
  • He usually enjoys Porteous' company, but on this occasion his dry dead classics makes Bowling even more depressed.  - Coming Up for Air
  • What he thought would be a romantic occasion is actually a dinner party where none of the guests is speaking, or can speak, English.  - Woman of the Year
  • Additionally, they encounter Mamoru Chiba, a high-school student who assists them on occasion as Tuxedo Mask.  - Sailor Moon
  • He stayed wherever was convenient, including on occasion at the houses of prominent Catholics.  - Gunpowder Plot

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