Example Sentences

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Rather than a hobby indulged in a vacuum, ceramics had become deeply enmeshed with Rogen’s sense of himself as a creative person — and had occasioned epiphanies he wanted to weave back into moviemaking.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021

She opened the package and gently stroked the purchase that had occasioned our odyssey: a five-dollar pink baby towel.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018

I lingered some minutes, being unaccustomed to retiring from a chamber without permission or direction; but our hostess having disappeared, I passed above-stairs to see what strife had occasioned such an outburst.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The week before the bald-headed teacher of the literature class had occasioned a bad break in the routine of the course by inconsiderately dying of pneumonia in the middle of the term.

From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

Greed had occasioned his disgraceful wranglings with the Comparini.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous