CONTINGENCY in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for CONTINGENCY, such as:
1. Why, one who foresees all contingencies.
2. I need to examine all possible contingencies.
3. Our success is contingent upon your continued help.
4. The marshal, a Count Rostov, hasn't sent half his contingent.
5. The longer he thought the more contingencies presented themselves.
2. I need to examine all possible contingencies.
3. Our success is contingent upon your continued help.
4. The marshal, a Count Rostov, hasn't sent half his contingent.
5. The longer he thought the more contingencies presented themselves.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONTINGENCY
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contingency
n. a possible event or occurrence or result
n. the state of being contingent on something
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.
2 She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
3 For which reason, that can never become a perfect republic wherein every contingency has not been foreseen and provided for by the laws, and the method of dealing with it defined.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
4 Now, entering into Weyrother's plan, Prince Andrew considered possible contingencies and formed new projects such as might call for his rapidity of perception and decision.
5 Why, one who foresees all contingencies.
6 He imagined all sorts of possible contingencies, just like the younger men, but with this difference, that he saw thousands of contingencies instead of two or three and based nothing on them.
7 The longer he thought the more contingencies presented themselves.
8 To guard against such contingencies she frequented the more populous watering-places, where she installed herself impersonally in a hired house and looked on at life through the matting screen of her verandah.
9 Her faculty for adapting herself, for entering into other people's feelings, if it served her now and then in small contingencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life.
10 There seemed never to be an end to the things they had to buy and to the unforeseen contingencies.
11 This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.
12 Let us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items contingent.
13 The marshal, a Count Rostov, hasn't sent half his contingent.
14 But the first plunderers were followed by a second and a third contingent, and with increasing numbers plundering became more and more difficult and assumed more definite forms.
15 To his English, to the regiments of Halkett, to the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans.
Example Sentence:
1 Where once relative health and relative safety were sufficient, we demand absolute health and utter safety against the remotest contingency.
2 They become obsessed with trying to equip their vehicles with gadgets to deal with every possible contingency.
3 I need to examine all possible contingencies.
4 Further investment is contingent upon the company's profit performance.
5 Our success is contingent upon your continued help.
6 The young heir's contingent of the estate was smaller than he had hoped for.
7 The French contingent certainly made their presence known at this year's conference.
8 All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.