In a sentence
Six example sentences with circumstance, each labelled with its topic.
The judge reduced the fine after hearing one circumstance the report had omitted: the shop had flooded the previous week.
Law
One circumstance drove the whole harvest price that year, a February frost that no forecaster had put in the models.
Economics
Researchers found that the same task felt harder under one circumstance, a noisy room, than in quiet conditions.
Psychology
One circumstance decided the final: the arena's air conditioning failed, and the older team faded in the heat.
Basketball
The experiment failed under one circumstance only, a humid afternoon, which is how the team found the leak in the seal.
Science
A single circumstance, a strike at the ferry port, turned our two-day crossing into a week on the island.
Travel
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