"circumstance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Her name was Ruth, and she lived with her parents in a flat in Park West, and we'd met two months ago in unpromising circumstances.
- Still, it's hope wrenched from the most unpromising circumstances, as Mudrooroo's dedication to "the men who did time in Fremantle Prison" reminds us.
- Both women have married in unpromising circumstances, as love is a luxury neither can afford.
- It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy, which had been smouldering for some time, at last burst into flame.
- All that lusty wanting, that earnest, unsecret desire, keeps her characters animated even in the most unpromising circumstances.
- The boy's natural intellect had somehow survived and grown in unpromising circumstances.
- That is the most unpromising circumstance, the strongest presumption against him.
- There was, in truth, little initiative that any British government could offer in the unpromising circumstances of 1977-8.
- The sun was nearing the western horizon; rather than push forward under such unpromising circumstances, the Emperor ordered camp made so he could safely advance come morning.
- Despite these rather unpromising circumstances, he was fairly certain they'd have gotten away.
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