In a sentence
Six example sentences with circumstances, each labelled with its topic.
Hardy's novels follow characters whose circumstances turn on one letter that arrives late or never arrives at all.
Literature
A single inheritance changed her circumstances completely, moving her from shared rooms to a house she owned outright.
Finance
Researchers followed the same families for thirty years to see how far childhood circumstances shaped adult earnings and health.
Economics
Letters home describe the settlers' circumstances plainly: one room, a shared stove, and wages paid in store credit.
History
The court considered the defendant's circumstances, including two jobs and a sick parent, before setting the payment schedule.
Law
People tend to blame their own failures on circumstances and other people's failures on character, a bias researchers named decades ago.
Psychology
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