How to Use circumstance in a Sentence

circumstance

noun

• She says that her client is a victim of circumstance and should not be blamed for the accident.
• The circumstances of his death are suspicious.
• He was a victim of circumstances.
• I can't imagine a circumstance in which I would do that.
• Is there some royal mandate for looking grim under such circumstances?
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• But circumstances are such that Piazza can’t really be sure.
  — Sex, Lies, Vulture, 10 May 2023
• The defendants could also argue fair use, which means lawful copying of others’ works in certain circumstances.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• Much like that film, Society of the Snow finds tremendous compassion in the most extreme circumstances.
  — EW.com, 14 Sep. 2024
• Even under the best possible circumstances, your first steps might not exactly match the picture in your imagination.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2023
• Were there circumstances in which the government’s zeal for secrecy could be overridden in the public interest?
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2024
• Yet in the decades since that ruling, other court cases have created confusion about the legal merit of boycotts in specific circumstances.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• Hampshire played Stevie, the owner of the motel that the once-rich Rose family had to move into following their change in circumstances.
  — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2024
• Judges would no longer have to face the voters except in limited circumstances, and anyone the voters decide to boot from office this year would get to keep their job under a measure on the November ballot.
  — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• That’s due to the circumstances of the killings or the way they were charged.
  — oregonlive.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• To the court clerks, to the bailiffs, to the prosecution, even the circumstances are grim.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• In the end, our home here is the best place in the world to live under any circumstance.
  — Steve West, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• The rape of a child – as in the case of Daisy’s birth mother – is one such circumstance.
  — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• In such circumstances, how could there fail to be a swarm of ghosts?
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• In certain circumstances, the post can break at the weld joint.
  — Jennifer Ryan, Fortune, 11 May 2023
• Last year there was a lot of circumstances (with the Panthers).
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 30 Oct. 2017
• In a bizarre state of circumstance, Wolves bid £16m, but got him for free.
  — SI.com, 12 July 2018
• Like all good galas, the pomp and circumstance are not futile.
  — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2022
• And in the right circumstances, a change of venue would no doubt make a difference.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• And that has to be much better in strange circumstance.
  — Patrick Reusse, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The circumstances that the boat and its survivors were found in are still unclear, Msehli said.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• Kaleb Brown is a guy who could maybe get a punt return look in the right circumstance.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2022
• Details on the circumstances of the crash were not released.
  — Mona Darwish, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
• Here was the leader of the free world caring about my circumstance.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 26 Aug. 2020
• Both are about to discover how much good there is in the world, even in the hardest of circumstances.
  — Ellen Piligian, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• Given the circumstances, is there any hope that the two of you will get to see it someday — even if no else can?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024