51Թ

Advertisement

Advertisement

View synonyms for

on occasion



Discover More

Idioms and Phrases

From time to time, now and then, as in Nell has been known to eat meat on occasion . This usage, first in the form of upon occasion , replaced by occasion about 1600.
Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

At the same time, the middle managers, the men in the gray flannel suits, on occasion they got doses of rhetoric that the Cultural Revolution would've been proud of.

From

"One of the aims of my father and John was to show that on occasion, the family of humankind could be joyous together and celebrate together," said Brasher.

From

We would meet for dinner on occasion and there would be people like Sidney Poitier there.

From

There were concerns he was repeatedly going missing and stealing; fears he was being exploited to use and deal drugs and that he had, on occasion, also left home with a knife.

From

Unfortunately, I've resigned myself to the fact that on occasion, I might be susceptible to these kinds of attack, which is pretty depressing.

From

Advertisement

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


o.n.o.on-off