| This occasioned some rapid-fire debate around the office as to whether such a competition might work. |
| Grace is a short prayer said at mealtime, a blessing and thanksgiving occasioned by eating. |
| The inconvenience and delay occasioned by the care of so much baggage caused the Romans to call it impedimenta. |
| But the tricentennial, in 1792, occasioned sermons, toasts, and parades from New York to Boston. |
| The title is only passing reference to the Louisville Institute sabbatical that occasioned its writing. |
| The original proclamation of a Memorial Day in 1868 was of course occasioned by the Civil War. |
