crise

[ kreez ]

noun,plural crises [kreez]. /kriz/. French.

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How to use crise in a sentence

  • At times locomotor ataxia begins with very severe pain seizures, known as crises.

  • Again, the processes of production were being perfected, and displacing men; here were panics and crises, displacing—yet more men.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
  • At this time Corydon's ailments became acute, and her nervous crises were no longer to be borne.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
  • It is at the great crises that the masses are most generally right, and the classes most generally wrong.

  • With that peculiar doubt that sometimes comes over one in such crises, Warren gently pinched one hand with the other.

    The Young Ranchers | Edward S. Ellis