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US
/ˈsɝkəmˌstænsəz, ˈsɝkəmˌstænsɪz/
]
[ UK /sˈɜːkəmstˌænsɪz/ ]
[ UK /sˈɜːkəmstˌænsɪz/ ]
NOUN
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot
success that was her portion
deserved a better fate
the luck of the Irish
whatever my fortune may be
a victim of circumstances -
a person's financial situation (good or bad)
he found himself in straitened circumstances
How To Use circumstances In A Sentence
- Beyond the point of Fetal viability it becomes illegal except in extreme circumstances.
- Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
- The second question was whether taxable persons in the circumstances of the applicants could be made liable for VAT. Times, Sunday Times
- And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
- It is best to set out all the circumstances that may lead to a deduction from wages and put these in the documentation you provide to employees. Times, Sunday Times
- Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
- This would suggest that he might have returned to bed before collapsing and dying in mysterious circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
- We don't easily imagine anymore a naive, unsophisticated 14-year-old without the resources or experience to go it alone or see a way out of current circumstances.
- Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
- Like a lacertine Vicar of Bray, he varies incontinently from buff to blue, and from blue back to orange again, under stress of circumstances. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
