occasioned

Meaning

of Occasion

Synonyms

Examples

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. Pliny the Elder

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz

The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward. Johannes Kepler

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men. Clement Freud

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient. Robert Walpole

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Orison Swett Marden