How to Use contingency in a Sentence

contingency

noun

• In making our business plans, we tried to prepare for any contingency that might hurt sales.
• The investors do not pay the law firm, which takes the case on contingency, as the lawyers did in the Musk case.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024
• This was a contingency plan in case there was a problem with the guardians.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• And like, the whole French contingency of our trip like, avoided the spice.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 July 2023
• That includes a contingency fund to support the project for the next three years.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Enter the contingency plans and out-of-the-box strategies.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2021
• That is why all these contingency plans are having to be thought about and looked at.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 1 July 2020
• Does the network have any contingency plans in the unlikely event the games are scrapped?
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 3 June 2021
• With that in mind, Awsumb said the current goal is to think ahead to that contingency.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
• If that does happen, Sprague and his wife have a contingency plan in place.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2018
• By the time our first round of shots starts to lose its oomph, contingency plans will have long ago been set in motion.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 June 2021
• But that’s about as far as things have gone, in terms of contingency planning for this year’s 500.
  — Nathan Brown, Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2020
• There is no case for any contingency plans or cancelling the Games or moving the Games.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2020
• Webb said the project length is set for one year, with some contingency for weather.
  — Lynn Kutter, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• Few in Kyiv are making the same last-minute contingency plans.
  — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2022
• Many contingency plans are being kicked around, and some have even floated the idea of starting the season in the spring.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2020
• To believe that your life is made of, or made out of, chances means not to think of contingency as something like a god.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• But four might not be enough to get through a game, so the Dolphins also have contingencies.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• But the Pentagon has been planning for the worst-case contingencies if the talks failed.
  — Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• The show can go on in light rain, and the team has contingency plans in case of storms, though they haven’t yet been used in the roughly 40 shows performed so far.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 17 June 2021
• One contingency is to line up a third-party spokesman who can help if the brand’s image is dinged.
  — Zach Schonbrun, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2016
• Some firms put in place contingency measures the last time a no-deal exit loomed.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• So some clinics may make last-minute contingency plans for the end of the day, so doses aren’t wasted.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2021
• Monarchy seeks, above all, to put on a show of timelessness in which the ruler floats above contingency and change.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2022
• But clearly there was a contingency plan in place: cue cards.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 21 Dec. 2017
• Still, Campbell said the Lions have contingency plans in place in the event the outbreak spreads to him or his coaching staff.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2021
• Top lawyers in the case, who worked on a contingency basis for as long as eight years, got tired of waiting for a share of their money.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
• Crews were also building contingency lines to the west of the fire in case conditions changed.
  — P. Kim Bui, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
• The construction cost with a 35% contingency is just over $2.2 million.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
• One of the contingency efforts includes tapping two nearby reservoirs to push the unpotable waters back downstream, Shallcross said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025