Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: occasioned
IPA transcription: [ɔk'eɪʒənd]
Usage examples
  • He looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain Blood's advent occasioned.
  • The courtiers suffered because of the suffering the suspense occasioned the Emperor.
  • But it harbours a boarder, a permanent one, I believe, who has occasioned no little comment.
  • The news, too, of this war occasioned great dissatisfaction among the governments of western Europe.
  • Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned, and longed to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon them.
  • I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me.
  • It is impossible to describe or to imagine the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom.
  • Hitherto much of the work had been ignorantly and carelessly done, and by the hasty and premature use of explosives more harm than good had been occasioned.
  • When she was informed of her death, I have been told, that the agonies of grief and remorse, with which she was seized, occasioned her a severe fit of illness.
  • Mrs. Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.